A coronavirus outbreak in Australia's second-largest city continues to grow and the Northern Territory detected its first case in three months.
A police officer directs traffic at a roadblock in suburban Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, July 2, 2020. Thousands of residents in dozens of suburbs of Melbourne, are preparing to lockdown for a month with the Victoria state premier warning a state-wide shutdown is possible if coronavirus cases continue to rise.
Northern Territory Health Minister Natasha Fyles said the man came home to Darwin on Monday from Melbourne before a one-month lockdown was imposed on 36 of its suburbs Wednesday night. Fyles said the man had spent two weeks in hotel quarantine in Melbourne on returning from overseas then spent “a couple of days“ with family in one of the city’s suburbs identified as a coronavirus hot spot.Victorian state Chief Health Minister Brett Sutton said 77 cases had been detected in the past 24 hours in Melbourne, mostly in the locked-down suburbs.
The Herald Sun newspaper reported allegations that security firms charged the state government for hotel guards that were not provided, guards had sex with quarantined hotels guests and allowed families to go between rooms to play cards.— India’s coronavirus caseload crossed 600,000 with 19,148 new cases reported in the past 24 hours and the curve on the rise. Nearly 100,000 cases came in the past four days as India’s tally reached 604,641 on Thursday.
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