Five million residents were ordered back into a six-week lockdown beginning midnight on Wednesday into Thursday as soaring community transmission of the coronavirus brings more than 100 new cases daily.
A further 134 infections were detected in the past 24 hours – small in comparison to the tens of thousands in hard-hit countries like the US and Brazil, but considered a major spike in Australia, which had otherwise been successful in containing Covid-19.
The country’s largest supermarket chain, Woolworths, said it had reimposed buying limits on items including pasta, vegetables and sugar after shoppers rushed to stores across Victoria state.
Original Source: By AFP
