Australia's second largest city will allow its five millions residents to travel more than 25 kms (15 miles) from home and end mandatory masks wearing outdoors from Friday, despite the city fighting a stubborn COVID-19 outbreak.
People wait in line to receive a coronavirus disease test behind the Kings Park townhouse complex, locked down in response to an outbreak, in Melbourne, Australia, June 16, 2021. REUTERS/Sandra SandersSYDNEY, June 16 - Australia’s second largest city will allow its five millions residents to travel more than 25 kms from home and end mandatory masks wearing outdoors from Friday, despite the city fighting a stubborn COVID-19 outbreak.
Although cases linked to a fresh cluster in a residential townhouse complex rose slightly on Wednesday, Melbourne will gradually ease restrictions. Victoria reported five new local cases on Wednesday, all linked to the townhouse cluster, taking total infections there to eight. Wednesday's data includes two cases announced on Tuesday which were recorded after the midnight cut-off deadline.
"It isn't over yet by no means ... please don't go back to behaviours that would suggest that there's absolutely no risk," Victoria state Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said during a televised media conference.
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