What we know about Victoria's coronavirus public housing tower 'hard lockdowns'

What does hard lockdown' mean and what assistance is available to residents?

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Some 3,000 public housing residents living in nine tower block estates in the Melbourne suburbs of Flemington and North Melbourne were placed into a five-day hard lockdown" on the afternoon of 4 July.

The decision, announced at a press conference on Saturday and effective immediately, was in response to 24 coronavirus cases that have been diagnosed in the two estates.