A restaurant prepares delivery meal orders during lockdown due to the continuing spread of the coronavirus in Melbourne.
Australia's hot spot state of Victoria state today extended its state of emergency for another six months as its weekly average of new Covid-19 infections dipped to 95.
The Victorian Parliament's upper chamber passed legislation by a 20-19 vote to extend the state of emergency, which enhances the Government's powers
to impose pandemic restrictions.
The Government had wanted a 12-month extension.
The state health department reported 90 new infections and six deaths in the latest 24-hour period. There were only 70 new infections yesterday.
But the latest seven-day average has dropped into double-digits for the first time in weeks. The previous week's average was 175 infections a day.
