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By Tom Cowie
Here’s one of my favourite stories from our coronavirus coverage today. Reporter
Tom Cowie spoke to Mark Drake, a young man from the Isle of Wight in the UK who has found a new career after trimming his housemates’ hair during last year’s lockdowns in Melbourne: a professional barber.
Mark Drake at Paragon Studio in Armadale where he is training to be a barber.
Credit:Penny Stephens
Mark Drake had never cut hair before COVID-19 reached Victoria.
But when the first of what would become four lockdowns began in March last year, his housemate asked him for a trim. “He was about to go back to the United Kingdom and he wanted some of his hair gone for the flight,” the 30-year-old says.
2 June 2021 9:46am
Victoria’s fourth lockdown will most likely be extended, according to a leak to the mainstream press on Wednesday morning, where it is suggested that tough restrictions would remain in place until at least early next week.
Six new COVID-19 cases were recorded overnight, bringing Victoria’s active caseload to 67 after more than 51,000 people were tested for the virus on Tuesday.
The state government and health officials debated the length of the extension in a cabinet meeting on Tuesday night amid fears of more infections.
COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar expressed fears on Tuesday that the new strain of the virus sweeping through Melbourne is one where transmission occurs aftert “fleeting contact”.