Melbourne, the city with the longest lockdown in the world, lifted at midnight on the 21st

Source: People's Daily - International Channel Original draft

People's Daily Canberra, October 22 (Reporter Chen Xiaowei) Comprehensive Australian media reports, At midnight on October 21, Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, officially unsealed. Since the outbreak of covid-19 in Australia last March, Melbourne has been locked down for 262 days, setting a record for the longest lockdown in the world. The record was previously held in Buenos Aires, argentina, where the lockdown lasted 234 days. After the unblock, the public will still be required to wear masks when going out, restaurants and cafes are allowed to dine in up to 20 people, and outdoors are limited to 50 people, but all customers must have completed vaccination.

Melbourne decided to unseal at this time because the complete vaccination rate of COVID-19 in Victoria, where Melbourne is located, reached 70%, rather than the decline in infection rates. During the lockdown, many people were unruly and repeatedly demonstrated on a large scale, resulting in a rising number of confirmed cases. Experts are worried that the unsealing will lead to a sharp increase in the number of confirmed cases.