Interstate health workers from Adelaide in South Australia take a swab as people queue during COVID-19 coronavirus testing in a park in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick West on July 2, 2020. Picture: AFP

Melbourne lockdown

Melbourne orders snap COVID-19 lockdown during Australian Open tennis

Under the restrictions, some five million people in Australia's second-biggest city will have to remain at home for five days from midnight except for a limited...

Australia warns coronavirus outbreak will take weeks to tame

Authorities in the state of Victoria, whose capital Melbourne is in partial lockdown amid a new outbreak, reported 275 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, down from a daily record of 438 three days earlier.

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Five million begin lockdown in Australian city

Residents have been told to stay at home for six weeks after other measures to contain a spike in COVID-19 failed to prevent the virus spreading.

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Panic-buying returns as Melbourne braces for lengthy lockdown

Five million residents were ordered back into a six-week lockdown beginning midnight Wednesday into Thursday as soaring community transmission of the coronavirus brings more than 100 new cases daily.

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