Australia orders snap lockdown

By Agence France-Presse

May 28, 2021 12:41 am

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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