Victorians living in coronavirus hotspots could be subject to strict stay-at-home directions and see a heavy police presence in their neighbourhoods
Police will enforce strict stay-at-home directions in Victoria's coronavirus hotspots if the spread of COVID-19 cannot be suppressed before July 19, as epidemiologists warn a "severe regional lockdown" might be needed sooner to curb the outbreak.
Mr Morrison said on Monday that locking down suburbs or local government areas was always part of national cabinet's plan as governments moved towards opening up the economy. Victoria recorded 16 cases of coronavirus on Monday – the sixth day in a row of double-digit growth – with 12 of those believed to be due to community transmission, making it the largest single-day increase in community transmission since the peak of the pandemic in April.
"We haven't put stay-at-home directions [for those municipalities], but we're not ruling it out," Ms Mikakos said yesterday. University of Melbourne professor of epidemiology Tony Blakely said if cases continued to climb dramatically over the next three days, a "very severe regional lockdown" was likely to be required.
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