The Coronavirus back to scare Australia: after keeping the epidemic under control in recent months, local authorities have been forced to close 36 suburbs of Melbourne, state capital of Victoria, decreeing a new one lockdown for 300 thousand people. The measure will last of a month starting from the end of June (ending on July 29), as announced by Prime Minister Daniel Andrews, to contain the risk of infection after a surge in new cases for two weeks. So far, in the country, which has 25 million inhabitants, 7,920 infections have been ascertained by Covid-19, to which 104 deaths must be added, but the recent boom of new infected has fueled fears for a second wave of the emergency. For this, the residents of the areas considered most at risk will remain confined to the house except for shopping, for medical visits, for work or assistance, and for exercise.
Access to gyms, swimming pools and libraries will also be limited, while cafes and restaurants will return to the take-away e delivery. The country’s two main supermarket chains, Coles and Woolworths, have been forced to impose limits on their purchases rolls of toilet paper, one of the basic necessities that everywhere snapped up at the beginning of the pandemic. There are also limits in the state of Victoria in Woolworths stores for the purchase of long-life rice, pasta and milk. Meanwhile, they will be guaranteed free tests to all residents of the areas identified as part of the strategy to contain the spread of the infection. “We have already done so with 54,000 people and in the coming days we will continue to knock on all the doors of the neighborhoods to give information on the tests,” Andrews said at the press conference.
Across the state of Victoria are 73 the Covid-19 cases recorded in the last hours, an increase for the 14th consecutive day. The new ones outbreaks they emerged mainly because of large gatherings family and in a hotel used for quarantines of return travelers, for whom a very strict security protocol must be followed. “We’ve had an increase in cases, but almost all of them are in a well-defined geographical area,” explained current medical director Paul Kelly. “Most continue to come from family groups and from this hotel in the center of Melborune. This leads me to think that at the moment this is not a widespread problem, but it must be intervene immediately “. South Wales has announced that anyone arriving from one of Melborune’s neighborhoods in lockdown faces fines of up to eleven thousand dollars or six months in prison.
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