Australia's Victoria declares disaster, sets curfew to curb coronavirus COVID-19

07:30:00 PM, Sunday 2nd of August 2020 | in miscellaneous

Australia`s second-most populous state of Victoria declared a state of disaster on Sunday and imposed a nightly curfew for the capital Melbourne as part of its harshest movement restrictions to date to contain a resurgent COVID-19. Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city already under a reimposed six-week stay-home order, has struggled to rein in the disease, with record numbers of infections of the new coronavirus reported last week.