In a press conference on Wednesday morning, Premier Daniel Andrews announced Melbourne’s sixth lockdown will be extended.
Initially slated to end at 11.59pm this Thursday August 12, the lockdown restrictions will now remain in place until Thursday August 19. It comes after the state recorded 20 new locally acquired cases of coronavirus.
While most are linked to current outbreaks, “There are a number of mystery cases and cases that are still being investigated,” Andrews said, which informed the lockdown extension.
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SIGN UPLockdown has lifted in regional Victoria, but the same rules will continue to apply in metropolitan Melbourne for another seven days. (Here’s a reminder of what’s allowed and what’s not.)
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