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Saturday, 13 Feb 2021 01:14 PM MYT
General view of a closed entrance gate at Melbourne February 13, 2021. Reuters pic
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MELBOURNE, Feb 13 Australia’s second most populous state Victoria entered a five-day lockdown today as authorities raced to prevent a third wave of Covid-19 cases sparked by the highly infections UK variant.
One new locally acquired case was confirmed in the past 24 hours, health authorities said today, taking the number of cases tied to a quarantine hotel at Melbourne airport to 14 and total active cases in the state to 20.
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Fans relax at Melbourne Park. It was announced the tournament will proceed without crowds over the next five days after the state of Victoria was placed under a snap lockdown from Friday to contain a fresh outbreak of the coronavirus disease, in Melbourne February 12, 2021. Reuters pic
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SYDNEY, Feb 12 Australia’s second-most populous city will enter a five-day snap coronavirus lockdown, authorities said on Friday, barring spectators for much of the Australian Open tennis tournament.
A fresh Covid-19 cluster linked to a quarantine hotel in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria state, reached 13 cases as of Thursday midnight, as authorities rushed to quash the spread of the virus. All of those infections were linked to the highly contagious UK variant.
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