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Melbourne was nudging 20 degrees by 7am and, as the city awoke, it breathed a collective sigh of relief. On walking tracks and beaches, strangers looked at each other â maskless â and grinned. Once again, we had done it.
The statewide snap lockdown â billed as a circuit breaker and ending at midnight on Wednesday â was nowhere near as tough as previous Melbourne lockdowns. But it still stung.
Photographer Chris Cincotta, who launched the wildly successful Humans in Melbourne, says we are a resilient city.
Credit:Justin McManus
Business groups have warned many small and medium operators will never come back after the past yearâs rolling lockdowns, and estimate the losses from the latest shutdown could be nudging $1 billion.