Panic-buying returns to Melbourne as city locks down
Melbourne residents have resumed panic-buying after the government announced that the city will be locked down for another 6 weeks. – EPA pic, July 8, 2020.
SHOPPERS in Australia’s second-biggest city stripped supermarket shelves today as millions in Melbourne prepared for a return to virus lockdown, with warnings the new restrictions will cost the economy Aus$1 billion a week. Five million residents were ordered back into a six-week lockdown beginning this midnight into Thursday as soaring community transmission of the coronavirus brings more than 100 new cases daily.
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