Melburnians scrambled to bars and restaurants for last drinks before the city returns to lockdown Wednesday night. Australia’s second-largest city has recorded 134 new cases over the last 24 hours, half of which are linked to public housing towers.

FRANCE 24 correspondent Richelle Harrison Plesse reports the prime minister is looking whether to slow the return of overseas nationals Australians to control the virus.

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