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Coronavirus: Australia tightens restrictions after new COVID-19 outbreaks

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Australian states on Tuesday tightened restrictions on movement as authorities struggle to contain a fresh outbreak of COVID-19 in the country’s southeast that is starting to spill into other areas.With growing fears of a second coronavirus wave nationally, two states extended border restrictions and Australia’s most populous state imposed limits on the number of people allowed in large pubs.The changes come as scores of new cases were uncovered in Victoria, the country’s COVID-19 hotspot, despite a return to lockdown last week for nearly 5 million people in state capital Melbourne.

Australia may restrict return of citizens from abroad amid coronavirus surge: PM Active cases in the state rose to nearly 2,000 after another 270 infections.

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