Australia's biggest city of Sydney recorded its deadliest day of the COVID-19 pandemic as troops and police set up roadblocks to limit the movement of people, while Melbourne faced a nightly curfew and a further two weeks of lockdown.

Sydney records deadliest day of COVID-19 pandemic, Melbourne lockdown extended

Melbourne entered into a seven-day lockdown on Friday after new coronavirus clusters were discovered as Australia grapples with news cases of the virus. The lockdown in Melbourne started from midnight on Thursday (14:00 GMT) with residents asked to stay home.

Melbourne in lockdown as Australia grapples with virus surge

More than five million people in Australia's second-biggest city of Melbourne were ordered into a snap week-long lockdown Thursday over an another Coronavirus outbreak in the city.

Melbourne goes under 7-days long snap lockdown

Authorities in Melbourne are set to end the five-day lockdown after no new cases were reported on Wednesday. Authorities said the lockdown would be lifted at 11.

Melbourne to end coronavirus lockdown after 'short, sharp circuit-breaker'

The Australian city of Melbourne has gone into a snap five-day lockdown on Friday after the latest outbreak of UK variant of COVID-19 strain. However, the organisers of the Australian Open have said that the Grand Slam will go ahead without crowds over the next five days.

'Will continue as planned': Australian Open organizers to go ahead with tournament despite snap lockdown

Melbourne authorities imposed a snap five-day lockdown in Australia's second-biggest city to contain the outbreak of "hyper-infectious" UK strain on Thursday casting doubt on the fate of the Australian Open grand slam tennis tournament which began this week.

Melbourne orders snap coronavirus lockdown during Australian Open tennis

Melbourne’s liberation from its COVID-19 lockdown has boosted hopes of crowds attending some of Australia’s major sporting events in the country’s second-biggest city.

End of Melbourne lockdown paves way for crowds at cricket, tennis

More than 70 people have been arrested in Melbourne, Australia, for flouting the state's stay-at-home orders to attend an anti-lockdown protest.

COVID-19 Pandemic: Several people arrested in illegal protests in Melbourne

Melbourne will go into stage three lockdown for six weeks from July 8 after the state recorded 191 new cases of coronavirus since Monday, the highest daily increase since the pandemic began. Watch report.

Melbourne returns to gruelling 6-week lockdown: Threat of 2nd wave of coronavirus