8 Jul 2020

Melbourne prepares for a six-week lockdown

From Afternoons, 1:25 pm on 8 July 2020

Melbourne is going back into lockdown for six weeks as Covid-19 cases in the city surge. 

Residents will not be able to leave their homes for any reason other than work, food, exercise or medical care.

Jesse speaks to Sophie Boot, a Kiwi living in Melbourne.

Police pull vehicles aside at a checkpoint in the locked-down suburb of Broadmeadows in Melbourne on July 2, 2020.

Photo: AFP