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Victoria declares 'state of disaster,' locking down millions in Melbourne to fight a soaring coronavirus outbreakhttps://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/02/australia/victoria-coronavirus-state-of-disaster-intl/index.html
(CNN)The premier of Victoria plunged the region into a "state of disaster" on Sunday, announcing even stricter lockdown measures, introducing a nightly curfew and banning virtually all trips outdoors after Australia's second largest state recorded 671 new infections in a single day.
Daniel Andrews told Victorians at a news conference that "we have to do more, and we have to do more right now," as the state battles to contain a devastating coronavirus outbreak that had already stripped residents of their freedoms, livelihoods and social interactions and made it an outlier from the rest of the country.
"Where you slept last night is where you'll need to stay for the next six weeks," Andrews said, announcing a curfew between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. beginning Sunday evening and moving Metropolitan Melbourne into stage four lockdown measures.
In that part of the state, only one person per household will be allowed to leave their homes once a day -- outside of curfew hours -- to pick up essential goods, and they must stay within a 5 kilometer radius of their home. Melburnians had already been under strict measures for most of July after the area was identified as the epicenter of Australia's second wave.
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Victoria declares 'state of disaster,' locking down millions in Melbourne to fight a soaring... (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2020
OP
Winter is the time buildings are closed up and recirculate their air while the heater's on...
Hekate
Aug 2020
#8
Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)1. I long for this kind of competency here.
Sooner of later (too late?) people in the US will get the urgency needed.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)4. Many Americans would ignore it.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)2. That's a serious lockdown
They aren't messing around.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)3. It's winter down there.
This a harbinger of what is to come for us in about 3 months, but far worse.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)5. So far there's nothing to indicate it's seasonal
Hekate
(90,829 posts)8. Winter is the time buildings are closed up and recirculate their air while the heater's on...
I think that may have something to do with the seasonality of flu, but thats just my guess.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)11. Florida, Texas, Arizona....
It might be worse in the summer in some places if people are stuck indoors because of the heat.
Or the seasons may not matter at all. We dont really know for sure yet.
Hekate
(90,829 posts)12. True. Air conditioning produces the same conditions. We don't know enough at all.
canetoad
(17,192 posts)6. I'm a couple of hours SE of Melbourne metro area
We are back to Stage 3 restrictions and compulsory masks but the metro area is now Stage 4 as noted above.
My town has been packed with plague rats in city clothes the past couple of weeks. It's easy to see how the virus is spreading when people are not taking the lockdown seriously.
Nevilledog
(51,201 posts)7. Yikes! Be super safe.
Hekate
(90,829 posts)9. Stay safe and well, canetoad
canetoad
(17,192 posts)10. Thanks Hekate and ND