The initial wave of the outbreak failed with a one-week deficit in Melbourne, prolonging restrictions in Australia’s second most populous city. Australia has been virtually virus-free in recent months, but someone introduced the Indian mutant, and because vaccination is low, it spreads very easily, he told M1 News.
The streets of Australia’s second largest city will be empty for at least another week. In Victoria, a full lockdown came into effect last Thursday after another case of coronavirus was recorded for the first time in three months.
And on Tuesday, six more cases were identified, bringing the number of illnesses in the state to 60 in the current wave. So the government decided
The lockdown will remain in effect in Melbourne until June 10.
„I know this is not the news Melbourne residents want to hear, but the government had no choice but to accept the High Commissioner for Health’s proposal to continue the lockdown. If we don’t, the mutated virus will get out of control and people will diesaid James Merlino, Governor of Victoria.
Thus, people living in Melbourne can only leave their homes to work, shop, exercise outdoors or get vaccinated. The Indian variant of the virus is responsible for the growing number of infections, which spread from person to person more easily and quickly.
In addition, three new infections were detected this week in nursing homes, which could be a serious concern.
Among the developed countries in the world, Australia has so far been the country where the number of infections has been kept relatively low by closing borders and introducing strict distancing rules. In the country since the outbreak of the disease, just over thirty thousand have been infected and 910 people have died.
On the other hand, the current wave is drawing more attention to the shortcomings of Australia’s vaccination campaign, with only 2 per cent of the population still receiving two doses of the vaccine.
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