Australia Steps up Police Patrols in Melbourne’s Locked Down Virus Hotspots

Police check the identification of members of the public at a pop up road block in Broadmeadows, Victoria to ensure they have legitimate reasons for leaving one of the 10 postcode hotspots on 2 July, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Darrian Traynor/Getty Images

SYDNEY/MELBOURNE—Australian police set up suburban checkpoints in coronavirus hotspots in Melbourne on Thursday and were considering using drones to enforce stay-at-home orders as authorities struggled to contain new outbreaks in the country’s second-largest city.

More than 1,000 police set up posts around 36 suburbs, which returned to lockdown after a spike in new infections.