Snap five-day Covid lockdown for Victoria announced in bid to contain UK variant

Daniel Andrews says stage four lockdown is to prevent a third wave in response to hyper-infectivity' of variant

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Victoria will enter a circuit-breaker" five-day lockdown from Saturday in an attempt to prevent a third wave", Daniel Andrews has announced.

The premier said on Friday afternoon the government would impose a snap lockdown from midnight because the hyper-infectivity" and speed of a UK variant outbreak had created a very real challenge".