BREAKING: Victoria has recorded 21 new coronavirus cases as anti-lockdown protesters threaten to stage weekend rallies “like nothing you’ve ever seen before”.
The average daily case number for metropolitan Melbourne has also dipped to 39.3, meaning the city is on track to a scheduled easing of restrictions.
Metropolitan Melbourne must reach an average daily case rate of between 30 and 50 cases over the preceding fortnight to trigger an easing of lockdown measures from September 28.There are 64 cases of an unknown source in metropolitan Melbourne and none in regional Victoria. Police and the riot squad are on standby as anti-lockdown protesters threaten to gather en-masse. Picture: David Geraghty/NCA NewsWire“like nothing you’ve ever seen before” in Melbourne’s CBD this weekend.
While blatant breaches of Melbourne’s 5km-radius rule were revealed as the cause behind a cluster of 34 coronavirus infections in Melbourne’s southeastern suburbs. Members of five households in Hallem, Clyde, Narre Warren South and Cranbourne North had travelled outside the mandated 5km radius, leading to the outbreak in Casey.
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