Anyone venturing out in Australia's second-biggest city was ordered Thursday to wear a mask as authorities struggle to contain multiple ...
23 Jul 2020 04:46PMMELBOURNE: Anyone venturing out in Australia's second-biggest city was ordered on Thursday to wear a mask as authorities struggle to contain multiple coronavirus clusters in the country's southeast.
The state's leader said the lockdown restrictions had helped stabilise infection numbers, but the next step was driving them down."Stability is not enough; stability won't get us beyond this," Premier Daniel Andrews told media.Locals seemed to have delivered, with those commuting through Melbourne telling AFP they were still adjusting to the mandatory face coverings, which are freely available in city shops.Elsewhere in Australia, masks are rare.
"We should go to ... whatever is necessary to just eliminate the thing and go back to what's left of our normal lives," Melbourne resident Adam Ozmen said. Australia has now recorded more than 13,300 cases of the virus and 133 fatalities among its population of about 25 million.
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