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6.33 – Melbourne extends lockdown for another seven days

The lockdown in the Australian city of Melbourne has been extended for another seven days. This was announced by the authorities in the state of Victoria on Wednesday. They hope to contain a new cluster of corona infections of the Kappa variant, which was first detected in India.

“We now have 60 cases and more than 350 sites that may have come into contact with the virus. We are dealing with a variant of the virus, which is spreading faster and more contagious than we have ever recorded,” Prime Minister James Merlino of Victoria said.

The lockdown for the five million residents of Australia’s second largest city was originally supposed to end at midnight on Thursday, but has been extended by a week. Residents are only allowed to leave their homes for essential things. It is now the fourth time that Melbourne residents have been placed on lockdown since the start of the pandemic.

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