She was provided with a phone number to ask for supplies. Because there was no notice of the lockdown, she had limited supplies of meat, but no vegetables or milk. Lucy, a single mother, is locked in a three-bedroom apartment with her seven children. In comments to the press and on social media, many tenants have spoken out about the lack of adequate services and food. The police claimed not to know what was taking place, but said they had been instructed to prevent residents from leaving their buildings.
Some residents have said officers were already in place before Andrews made the announcement. on Saturday, some 30 minutes before it was publicly announced. A letter distributed by Victorian authorities in the towers yesterday revealed that the stay-at-home order came into effect at 3:30 p.m. The residents were given just half an hour’s notice of the lockdown, and some only found out from media reports or when dozens of police arrived.
The buildings have been flooded with 500 police officers, but tenants who are sick have not been evacuated and few health or cleaning measures have been put in place to prevent further transmission. Residents in the towers and working people more broadly have condemned the punitive, police-state measures to which the tenants have been subjected. Some 69 residents of the Flemington and North Melbourne towers have tested positive for COVID-19, but health authorities have warned that as many as 300, or 10 percent, may be infected already. The unprecedented move, backed by the federal Liberal-National government, came as the state’s surge in coronavirus infections continued to spiral out of control.Ĭommunity transmission appears to be rampant, with 191 new cases announced in Victoria today, the highest daily tally since the pandemic began in March. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced on Saturday afternoon that the residents would not be permitted to leave their apartments for a minimum of five days and as long as two weeks. Polls show slipping support for the government amid criticism of a slow vaccination roll-out that has been blamed on changing regulatory advice and supply shortages.There is mounting anger over the Victorian state Labor government’s decision to impose a “hard” police lockdown on some 3,000 residents in nine inner-city Melbourne public housing towers. The popularity of the federal government may suffer from the extended lockdown. However, it expanded a list of local government areas within the city where the ban would stay because of the prevalence of Covid-19 cases there.
To minimize the economic impact, the NSW government said it would lift a ban on non-occupied construction in most of Sydney. The extension turns what was initially intended to be a “snap” lockdown of Australia’s most populous city into one of the country’s longest since the start of the pandemic, and may spark the second recession of the 2 trillion Australian dollar ($1.47 trillion) economy in two years, according to economists. In one case, a mourning ceremony attended by 50 people in violation of lockdown rules resulted in 45 infections, she said. Sydney Covid cases expected to rise after anti-lockdown protest as two charged for allegedly hitting police horse Protesters march through the streets during a 'World Wide Rally For Freedom' anti-lockdown rally in Sydney, Saturday, July 24, 2021. “We have to deal with the cards before us and the situation before us and that is why we have taken the action we have.”īerejiklian added that police would boost enforcement of wide-ranging social distancing rules and urged people to report suspected wrongdoing, saying “we cannot put up with people continuing to do the wrong thing because it is setting us all back.” “I am as upset and frustrated as all of you that we were not able to get the case numbers we would have liked at this point in time but that is the reality,” said NSW State Premier Gladys Berejiklian at a televised news conference. Of particular concern, at least 46 of the new cases were people active in the community before being diagnosed, raising the likelihood of transmission, said the authorities, who have cautioned that active community transmission must be near zero before relaxing the rules. A near-empty street in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, July 27, 2021.
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