Coronavirus: Melbourne to enter snap lockdown; Malaysia’s outbreak leaking into Thailand

More than 5 million people in Australia’s second-biggest city were ordered into a week-long lockdown on Thursday, as officials blamed a sluggish vaccine roll-out and hotel quarantine failures for another coronavirus outbreak.Residents of Melbourne and surrounding Victoria state will have to stay at home from midnight for seven days, acting state Premier James Merlino said, as a cluster doubled to 26 cases.“In the last day, we’ve seen more evidence we’re dealing with a highly infectious strain…

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