Coronavirus testing of all 3000 residents in Melbourne's nine housing towers already in lockdown has now been completed, the Victorian Health Department says. 9News
for at least five days with the potential for it to run to 14 days, ending at 3.30pm on Saturday July 18.
"I think we need to have a complete picture across those towers, given that there are real communities of interest. There's patterns of movement. There's friendship groups. There's all those things," he said.
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