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Australian City Enters Its Fourth Lockdown as Virus Returns
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Melbourne races to contain highly infectious Covid-19 strain
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Outbreak raises questions about nation’s isolation strategy
WATCH: The Australian state of Victoria enters a 7-day lockdown due to another Covid-19 outbreak.
Melbourne, the Australian city that’s already endured one of the world’s longest and most stringent lockdowns, is ordering residents to stay home for the fourth time since the pandemic began as the return of infections tests the country’s zero-tolerance approach to the virus.
The city of 5 million people, along with all other areas of Victoria state, will go into lockdown from midnight for seven days, acting Premier James Merlino told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday. The number of cases within the community had doubled in the past day to 26, he said.
