Global report: curfew in Australia's second-largest city as Mexico racks up daily record
by Martin Farrer from on (#56E7Z)
Surging mystery cases' put Melbourne in stage 4 restrictions; media banned from Republican convention; Mexico deaths are world's third highest
The Australian state of Victoria has declared a state of disaster and placed Melbourne, the country's second biggest city, under nighttime curfew as it grapples with hundreds of mystery cases" of coronavirus.
As countries around the world including the US, the UK and Spain reimpose varying degrees of lockdowns, the Victorian premier announced that the state had to impose the highest level of restrictions in order to overcome a stubbornly high number of cases that cannot be traced.
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