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Restrictions: Pandemic Restrictions and Pandemic Measures

restrictions: But as most of the country emerges from pandemic restrictions, the virus has resumed spreading at an alarming rate in Victoria's capital, Melbourne, according to CTV. The city is buckling down with more extreme and divisive measures that have ignited anger and arguments over who is to blame. The southeastern state of Victoria had some of the nation's toughest pandemic measures and was among the most reluctant to lift its restrictions when the worst of its outbreak seemed to have passed. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said Tuesday that the entire city and some of its surrounds will be locked down again from Wednesday night under tougher restrictions than were imposed during the first shutdown that started in March. About 3,000 residents of nine public housing high-rise buildings were given just an hour's notice at the weekend before being prohibited from leaving their apartments for at least five days. We are in many respects in a more precarious, challenging and potentially tragic position now than we were some months ago, Andrews said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.