SYDNEY, June 22 — Australian officials tried to contain a fresh outbreak of the novel coronavirus today, telling residents in the cluster hotspots to avoid travel outside their suburbs in Melbourne, the country's second-largest city. Victoria state of which Melbourne is the capital has recorded...
Monday, 22 Jun 2020 01:40 PM MYT
SYDNEY, June 22 — Australian officials tried to contain a fresh outbreak of the novel coronavirus today, telling residents in the cluster hotspots to avoid travel outside their suburbs in Melbourne, the country's second-largest city. “At the moment the recommendation is simply an advisory, a strong advisory, where what we don't want is people to come from those areas to other parts of Victoria, or interstate,” Australia's Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio.
The Victorian government has said it would reimpose restrictions on social gatherings after the surge in new cases it says has been caused by family get-togethers attended by people with mild symptoms.New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, told residents to avoid travelling to hotspots in neighbouring Victoria as the winter school holidays approach.
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