MELBOURNE – Coffee business owner Darren Silverman pulled his van over and wept when he heard on the radio that Melbourne’s pandemic lockdown would be largely lifted on Wednesday after 111 days.Silverman was making a home delivery Monday when the announcement was made that restrictions in Australia’s second-largest city would be relaxed.
He was overwhelmed with emotions and a sense of relief."The difficulty over the journey, when you’ve put 30 years of your life into something that’s suddenly taken away with the prospect of not returning through no fault of your own — I felt like I could be forgiven for pulling over and having a bit of a sob to myself,” he said.According to the Victoria state government the lockdown changes will allow 6,200.