Testing Almost Done at Melbourne Towers

A general view of police and Ambulance services at the front of Flemington Public housing flats on July 05, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images

COVID-19 testing at Melbourne’s nine locked-down public housing towers is expected to be completed soon.

About 3000 residents in the Flemington and North Melbourne towers have been in a “hard lockdown” since the afternoon of July 4, unable to leave their apartments due to the virus outbreak.