In seven days lockdown More than five million residents of Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city, have been arriving since midnight today following the outbreak of the new coronavirus.
The seven-day lockdown covers the whole of Victoria, said the interim head of state government, James Merlino, as the number of cases associated with this outbreak has doubled to 26.
The reason why it was decided to impose immediate restrictive measures is that it is a cluster of cases “of an extremely infectious variant of the virus, very worrying, which is transmitted faster than we have ever recorded”, Mr. Merlino explained.
This is the variant strain B.1.617 of the new coronavirus, which was originally identified in India and has a higher transmissibility, as noted by AMPE.
The lockdown, which is intended to “break the chain” of transmission, will allow health authorities to track cases more easily.
For the next week, residents in Victoria will not be allowed to leave the house except for absolutely necessary travel, for example to go for vaccinations.
Mr Merlin has accused the federal Conservative government of being partly responsible for the lockdown, due to the slow pace of the population’s immunization campaign. COVID-19.
“If more people had been vaccinated, the conditions would have been very different from what we know today. “Unfortunately, this is not the case,” he said.
This is the fourth lockdown in Australia’s second largest city from the outbreak of the new coronavirus pandemic in the country.
In recent months, Australians in general have seen restrictive measures ease, as authorities on the vast island of Oceania believe they have taken control of the pandemic. But recently there have been voices warning that the slow progress of the immunization campaign is making the country vulnerable.
The Labor opposition blames the government because did not modify the quarantine system for travelers arriving from abroad, which has proved problematic.
“If we had found an alternative to quarantine in hotels, we would not be here today,” Mr Merlino said.
Just 3.7 million doses vaccines have been granted so far in Australia, a country with a population of 25 million.
However the Australia has so far recorded less than a thousand deaths (exactly 910) of COVID-19 patients out of a total of just over 30,000 cases of SARS-CoV-2, numbers much lower than in other developed countries, mainly due to the closure of borders, lockdowns, tracking contacts and compliance with the rules of the chosen social distance by citizens.
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