Melbourne public housing towers in lockdown

. Medical staff wearing PPE holding material about to walk into the Flemington public housing flats. Nine public housing estates have been placed into mandatory lockdown and two additional suburbs are under stay-at-home orders as authorities work to stop further Covid-19 outbreaks in Melbourne Photograph: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images

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………………Each one of the Melbourne tower blocks is home to hundreds of residents living in small units without balconies. "Those towers have a large concentration of people in a small area," acting Australian Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said on Sunday. "They are vertical cruise ships, in a way………….. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-06/why-melbourne-locked-down-public-towers-are-a-coronavirus-worry/12423934