Melbourne enters new lockdown as Covid cluster grows
Tennis spectators barred from Australian Open as authorities try curb spread of the virus
12 February 2021 - 10:10
Sydney — Australia’s second-most populous city will enter a five-day snap coronavirus lockdown, authorities said on Friday, barring spectators for much of the Australian Open tennis tournament.
A fresh Covid-19 cluster linked to a quarantine hotel in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria state, reached 13 cases at midnight on Thursday, as authorities rushed to quash the spread of the virus. All of those infections were linked to the highly contagious UK variant...
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