Australia's Melbourne and surrounding Victoria ordered into five-day lockdown

The largely Covid-free country is trying to halt an outbreak of the Delta variant.

Health workers at Ariele Apartments in Maribyrnong, north-west of Melbourne Image: AAP/PA Images Health workers at Ariele Apartments in Maribyrnong, north-west of Melbourne Image: AAP/PA Images AUSTRALIA’S BID TO quash a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak will see the country’s second city of Melbourne return to a “hard and fast” lockdown tonight.

The largely Covid-free country is trying to halt an outbreak of the Delta variant, which has grown to almost 1,000 cases nationwide in a month. “Nothing about this virus is fair,” he said, describing how just 18 cases in Victoria had spurred thousands of contacts who must now be traced and tested.“If you wait, if you hesitate, if you doubt, then you will always be looking back wishing you had done more earlier.”Australia’s largest city, Sydney, is now in its fourth week of lockdown, after the virus spread from overseas aircraft workers to their local driver in mid-June.

But the lockdown is set to continue for two more weeks to try and eliminate any community transmission.

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