Yarra City Council will on Tuesday urge the government to test every resident of the 12 towers in its municipality, and transfer anyone who tests positive to an isolation hotel, rather than subject more towers to lockdown.
Tenants in high-rise towers outside the lockdown zones have called on the government to take urgent action to avoid another outbreak of COVID-19 at public housing estates in Richmond, Collingwood and Fitzroy.
Victoria's Chief Health Officer, Professor Brett Sutton, acknowledged on Sunday that some of the towers had been locked down on the "precautionary principle" that transmission may have occurred between the buildings.As Victoria recorded its highest yet daily tally of transmissions, with 127 new cases reported overnight, residents in other estates have expressed their alarm at cleaning rates and hygiene practices at other estates.
It is expected the motion, which also calls on the government to put an immediate rent freeze on apartments in the event of lockdown, and to introduce emergency free WiFi for residents in the towers, will be passed."I've been inundated, that's the only word for it," he said. "People are frightened, and they are right to be."
Ms Blake said cleaning was still ineffectual, even after the lockdown of the nine towers in Flemington and North Melbourne.
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