Public health officials are now going door-to-door offering residents free testing for the virus.
Australia is placing around 300,000 people in lockdown after a spike ofVictoria has now reported 73 new Covid-19 cases, causing 10 hotspot postcodes to be placed in lockdown from midnight. The state’s premier Daniel Andrews said today that public health officials would be going door-to-door in the most affected suburbs and offering free testing to residents.
He continued: ‘I can report to you that as of last night we had knocked on some 54,000 doors in those high-risk suburbs and postcodes offering advice, testing information and in some cases the self-administering test kits where people can take the test and it can be collected at a later point.’‘There will be further door-knocking, quite intensive door-knocking and there will be an update to this end each and every day.
‘We will be there to support each and every business that’s impacted, not just with within the zone but also the tourism businesses where there will be bookings that will have to be cancelled because of these lockdowns.’ Andrews added that authorities are working ‘literally day and night’ to avoid having to put more areas in Australia in lockdown. He said the country’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison had given his full support for the measures.
Last week, Australia saw its first coronavirus-related death in a month after a man in his 80s died in Victoria after testing positive for the virus. The state has now been reporting double digit rises in cases for more than two weeks.
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