Epidemiologists data says the current Melbourne lockdown crisis is due to hotel quarantine breaches. Data shown to the Victorian Premier suggests the new outbreak was due to issues at Hotel quarantine in Melbourne. The hotel quarantine breach has led to the new Melbourne lockdown and the diversion of international flights away from Melbourne Airport. Genomic…
Breaking News: Melbourne suburbs will be locked down as the outbreak continues for one month. Dozens of suburbs across Melbourne will be forced into lockdown by the Victorian government. “This only works if people comply, this only works if people use common sense,” Premier Daniel Andrew said. “You shouldn’t be going into those postcodes” for…
A localised lockdown of Melbourne’s coronavirus hot spots is likely, the Herald Sun reports. A four-week localised lockdown of certain Melbourne suburbs is being considered, government officials had leaked to the newspaper. “The Herald Sun understands the health authorities and ministers are finalising details of a geographical lockdown limiting the movements of residents living in about 10…
Public warned of potential for new lockdown in certain Melbourne suburbs, as crisis escalates in the city. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said he was preparing to put certain suburbs on lockdown in the coming days, if coronavirus cases continued to rise in so called “hot spots”. 7 News Melbourne said tonight that suburbs under the…
Breaking News: There is a concerning surge in cases across Melbourne today. Victorian Deputy CHO Annaliese Van Diemen said the government is “very concerned”. The Victorian Government is sending out emergency texts to people in suburban Melbourne “hot spots” as the crisis escalates across the city. Emergency Texts are being sent to Keilor Downs and…
Breaking: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a COVID-19 testing blitz of 10 priority suburbs. The Premier said there will be a “an unprecedented suburban testing blitz… we will test 50% of those suburbs in coming days,” he said. “There will be ambulances and cans literally at the end of their streets,” Andrews said. There…
Woolworths has reinstated a purchase limit of two items on toilet paper, hand sanitiser, paper towel, flour, sugar, pasta, mince, long-life milk, eggs and rice across its Victorian stores this afternoon. The preventative move is in response to significantly elevated demand seen over the past 24 hours in certain parts of Melbourne. It will support social…
Breaking: Panic buying is back in Melbourne today; with toilet paper and other essential items flying off the supermarket shelves. There are reports many supermarkets across suburban Melbourne are all out of toilet paper as people panic buy over fears of more lockdowns. Melbourne radio station 3AW fielded calls from across the metropolitan area of…
Breaking News: Victoria continues to see a surge in Coronavirus cases. Today the Victorian government said there were 16 new known cases in the state. 6 Cases are linked to known outbreaks, 4 hotel quarantine, 5 from routine testing, 1 is under investigation 222 cases now believed to involve community transmission. There are 9 people…
Breaking News: The Victorian Government has identified the local government areas (LGAs) of Hume, Casey and Brimbank, Moreland, Cardinia and Darebin as the focus of current outbreaks of concern. There are warnings for people to limit their travel between 6 local council areas in Melbourne as they are virus hotspots. Coronavirus transmission across the community…
