FRAN KELLY: Victoria is taking dramatic steps to tackle the corona surge in Melbourne after the city had its 14th straight day of double digit growth in new cases.
From midnight tonight, 36 Melbourne suburbs will go back into lockdown. A short time ago the Prime Minister was asked whether it would set back the national recovery.[Excerpt]PRIME MINISTER SCOTT MORRISON: That is always a risk, but it's also important to keep it in perspective.
We've got to keep our economy open because if we don't do that that will cost jobs. We've got to keep opening that economy. We deal with the outbreaks — you keep the testing, you keep the tracing, you keep the social distance, you download the COVIDSafe app, you do all of this, they're the protections.