Public Housing towers in Melbourne still in hard lockdown

Police and healthcare workers in protective gear prepare to enter one of the locked-down towers at the North Melbourne public housing estate on Wednesday. Picture: NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw. The number of coronavirus cases linked to nine public housing towers¬ in hard lockdown has soared to 75, with dozens of health workers attending the two estates in Melbourne’s inner north. And the 3000-plus residents trapped in the towers will have to “wait and see” if their hard lockdown continues, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said.