How a trust breakdown left Melbourne's minority communities hardest hit by Covid second wave
by Josh Taylor from on (#57GQ3)
Melbourne's top five areas for coronavirus cases in the latest outbreak are among the city's most culturally and linguistically diverse
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A breakdown of trust and poor government communications left Melbourne's ethnically diverse and lower-income suburbs ill-prepared as Covid-19 raged through their communities, according to peak community bodies.
Melbourne's top five areas for Covid-19 cases in the second wave - Wyndham, Brimbank, Hume, Whittlesea and Melton - are among the city's most culturally and linguistically diverse, as well as the most disadvantaged.
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