SYDNEY (Reuters) – An increase in COVID-19 cases in Australia’s second-largest city could take weeks to lessen despite a shutdown and orders to wear masks, Australia’s acting chief medical officer said Monday as the country prepares for a second wave of infection. FILE PHOTO: People walk downtown in the first …
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A chart is shown showing the areas of Melbourne that will need to be closed as Victorian Prime Minister Daniel Andrews speaks to the media on July 7, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Darrian Traynor | fake pictures Australia will reveal its first economic and fiscal update since the coronavirus outbreak …
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – After a one-day respite, coronavirus cases in the Australian state of Victoria have increased again, prompting a move to make masks mandatory in the Melbourne metropolitan area and county Mitchell’s close. Health officials on Sunday registered 363 new cases in the last 24 hours. Two men …
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison delayed the opening of parliament for several weeks on Saturday as the new coronavirus continued to spread through the country’s two most populous states. Morrison asked the Speaker of Parliament to cancel a two-week session that will begin on August 4, out …
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(Newser) – A 10-year-old boy is lucky to be alive after a shark pulled him out of a boat off the Australian coast. Authorities say the boy was on a 20-foot boat fishing with his father and two other people on Friday about 3 miles off the coast of Tasmania …
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