A group of 3,000 Melburnians have been locked down in public housing towers

The continued presence of coronavirus in Victoria has prompted officials to, somewhat controversially, lock down nine public housing towers in inner-Melbourne.

Police patrols are seen outside public housing towers on Racecourse Road in Flemington, Melbourne, Sunday, July 5, 2020 Source: AAP

Thousands of people across nine public housing towers in Melbourne have been ushered into an unprecedented lockdown to clamp down on Victoria’s surge in coronavirus cases.

Victoria recorded another 74 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, on top of 108 new cases on Saturday, taking the total number of infections in the state recorded during the pandemic to 2,536.

The Saturday spike resulted in Premier Daniel Andrews announcing a lockdown of the public housing blocks in North Melbourne and Kensington for at least five days.

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