Lockdown underway in Melbourne

An empty Swanston St at night in the Central Business District as lockdown of Melbourne forces people to stay at home due to the continuing spread of COVID-19.

Melbourne şehir merkezinde Swanston Sokağı'nda sessizlik hakim. Source: AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake

Additional defence force personnel are being sent to Victoria to help contain the state's COVID-19 outbreak.


On day one of Victoria's "circuit breaker" lockdown thousands of people without appointments have lined for hours trying to get a coronavirus vaccine.


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