12 Feb 2021

Melbourne enters third lockdown as Covid-19 UK strain spreads

From Checkpoint, 5:16 pm on 12 February 2021

It's de ja vu for the Australian state of Victoria, which will enter its third lockdown tonight, for five days.

A new cluster of cases has emerged from one of Melbourne's quarantine hotels, and they've been genomically linked to the UK variant of Covid-19.

The premier, Daniel Andrews has described it as a short, sharp, circuit breaker aimed at smothering the hyper-infectious variant.