Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, has gone into a sixth lockdown, with a state government leader blaming the nation’s slow Covid-19 vaccination rollout, according to AP.
Melbourne joins Sydney and Brisbane, Australia’s most populous and third most populous city respectively, in locking down due to the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant.
Melbourne and surrounding Victoria state will lock down for seven weeks after the detection of eight new infections in the city, Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said.
Andrews gave less than four hours’ notice that the state would lock down from 8pm.
