After almost four months, the lockdown imposed on the Australian metropolis Melbourne due to the corona virus will be lifted. After no daily new infections or deaths were registered for the first time since the beginning of June, the curfew ends at midnight on Wednesday night, the authorities announced today. Restaurants, beauty salons and retail stores in the country’s second largest city are allowed to reopen.
Most recently, no new CoV cases were registered in Melbourne on June 8. After breaches of security requirements in hotels for the accommodation of quarantined travelers returning from abroad, there was a new, larger CoV outbreak in July, which led to strict exit restrictions.
„Emotional day“
At the announcement of the long-awaited lifting of the lockdown, the Prime Minister of the State of Victoria, Daniel Andrews, shook his voice, speaking of an „emotional day“. It was a „very difficult year“ for the people of the state and he was proud of „each and every one of them“.
Victoria is still cut off from the rest of Australia. Because of the pandemic, extremely strict requirements apply and the borders between the individual states are closed. Overall, Australia has come through the crisis relatively well, with around 27,500 infections and 905 deaths among a population of 25 million.
