Victoria plunged into 6th lockdown

According to The Age, Victoria will head into its 6th lockdown from 8pm tonight only a week after its last ~2 week lockdown:

Victoria will enter lockdown from this evening around 8pm for a period of about a week @theage

Cabinet meeting now to finalise detailshttps://t.co/n2NH2kmXaU

— Paul Sakkal (@paulsakkal) August 5, 2021

According to the article:

The lockdown is set to begin about 8pm on Thursday and will probably last a week, according to two government sources speaking on The Age on the condition of anonymity because the announcement has not yet been made.

At least us Melburnians have had lots of practice.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.