‘A lot of worry’ residents of other Melbourne housing blocks want more done to stave off Covid 19

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High-rise public housing tenants cite mobile testing, more cleaning and hand sanitiser among key needs
The Victorian government is facing calls to bring mobile testing into all of Melbourne’s high-rise public housing estates and to ramp up cleaning and culturally appropriate resources to prevent a repeat of the “hard lockdown” inflicted on 3,000 residents since Saturday.
As the state’s premier, Daniel Andrews, cited a record 191 new cases while reintroducing stage 3 restrictions across Melbourne, residents in other large high-rise towers across the inner city still expressed fear about the prospect of their own hard lockdown and said they were frustrated by a lack of resources and support. Continue reading...

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