Melbourne, Victoria: People queue for a Covid-19 test in Melbourne on May 27, 2021 after five million people in Melbourne were ordered into a snap week-long lockdown following another Covid-19 virus outbreak. AFP PHOTO
Melbourne, Victoria: People queue for a Covid-19 test in Melbourne on May 27, 2021 after five million people in Melbourne were ordered into a snap week-long lockdown following another Covid-19 virus outbreak. AFP PHOTO

MELBOURNE: Five million people in this city, the second biggest in Australia, were ordered into a snap weeklong lockdown on Thursday with officials blaming Australia's sluggish vaccine rollout and hotel quarantine failures for yet another virus outbreak in the country's second-biggest city.

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