State of disaster declared for Victoria, Australia

Melbourne: Sweeping new restrictions, including a night-time curfew, will be imposed across Melbourne under stage four restrictions from tonight and regional Victoria will move to stage three restrictions from Thursday. Premier Daniel Andrews said 671 new coronavirus cases had been detected since yesterday and seven more people had died.

Six of the deaths have a connection to aged care. The Premier said there was an “unacceptably high” number of community transmission cases, and the state had 760 active COVID-19 infections.