Melbourne headed for new lockdown

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The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald can confirm that Victoria will announce 64 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday.

That number is down from Monday’s 75 cases.

Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said on Monday that he was worried numbers would go up this week as results from the door-to-door suburban testing blitz in hotspot suburbs come through.

The Victorian government was meeting this morning to discuss local lockdowns. The government is expected to reveal more on that possibility, along with more details on the 64 cases, this afternoon.

SA has abandoned reopening the border. QLD will remain shut to Victorians but open to other states from July 10.

Welcome, Victorians, to your new Chinese economy.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.