they will tell you melbourne is the most locked down city in the world. that may or may not be exactly true but it s certain that this city has endured a lot of restrictions, with 262 days of lockdown between march 2020 and october 2021. and one of the things the hardest hit was its internationally renowned food scene. but i d heard that among the challenges they d face, industry here was adapting and evolving. melbourne s food scene is really unique. i think it s because we are so isolated down here in the bottom of the planet, we ve had to actually do it ourselves but we re also the product of every different nation in the world which has come here over the last couple of hundred years and set up shop here. without the footfall of the city workers during the pandemic, melbourne city centre restaurants in particular suffered. but in the suburbs of melbourne, the opposite was happening. people were able to walk to their local takeaway or restaurants were turned
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of a positive test. on average in the past week, there were 262 deaths per day. vaccinations are continuing at a slower pace. on average, in the last week nearly 124,000 people per day had a boosterjab. 63.3% of the population, aged 12 or over, have now had three doses. the culture secretary, nadine dorries, has suggested that the days of the bbc licence fee are numbered, in a tweet about the present charter which runs until 2027 being the last. our media correspondent david sillito explained what happened this morning on social media. i tweet this morning, and this license fee announcement will be the last. the days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors are over. there are essentially two bits of information on this. a licence fee announcement essentially indoors in the boozing mail on sunday as suggesting it be frozen for the next
national institution at the time. david, thank you. now to the latest coronavirus data which today does not include figures from scotland, due to a technical issue. elsewhere, there were 70,921; new infections, in the latest 24 hour period. that means an average of nearly 108,000 new cases per day in the last week. another 88 deaths were reported of people who died within 28 days of a positive test. on average in the past week, there were 262 deaths per day. vaccinations are continuing, at a slower pace. on average in the last week, nearly 124,000 people per day had a boosterjab. 63.3% of the population aged 12 or over have now had three doses. a man who took four people hostage at a synagogue in texas and held them for ten hours, was a british citizen, the foreign office has confirmed. the four hostages were freed by police the hostage
i ve returned to my home city of melbourne after a long time away during the covid crisis. while this city has come through the pandemic well so far, in terms of preserving life, it has still suffered a big upheaval. if you ask the locals, they will tell you melbourne is the most locked down city in the world. that may or may not be exactly true, but it s certain that this city has endured a lot of restrictions, with 262 days of lockdown between march 2020 and october 2021. and one of the things the hardest hit was its internationally renowned food scene. but i d heard that among the challenges they d face, industry here was adapting and evolving. melbourne s food scene is really unique. i think it s because we are so isolated down here