Australian officials were considering tighter restrictions in the country's second-biggest city as hundreds more coronavirus cases were recorded despite more than three weeks in lockdown.
As greater Melbourne passed the halfway point of a lockdown initially intended to last six weeks, Premier Daniel Andrews said the state would be stuck in "limbo" unless it could cut the infection rate. "We've stopped it from getting completely out of control...
but we haven't been able to suppress it sufficiently," Mr Andrews told media in Melbourne. Without a drop in infections, there was an "absolute certainty" any rollback of restrictions would see virus cases spiral out of control, he said. "It's almost impossible for us to see businesses recover and