Melbourne's 'hard lockdown' orders residents of nine public housing towers to stay home as coronavirus cases surge

Five hundred police sent to enforce command that 3,000 tenants remain in their units

Three thousand people living in nine public housing towers in Melbourne have been placed under the harshest lockdown rules of the coronavirus pandemic in Australia so far and banned from leaving their homes for at least five days.

The Victorian government’s decision to lock down all nine towers was made because of “patterns of movement, friendship groups, family groups,” the premier said.

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