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Melbourne Reopens As World’s Most Locked-Down City Eases Covid Curbs

Melbourne: Melbourne residers crowded to the megacity's cafés, caffs and hair salons in the early hours of Friday after the world's most locked-down megacity surfaced from its rearmost torrent of restrictions designed to combat the spread of COVID-19 Australia's alternate-largest megacity has so far endured 262 days, or nearly nine months, of restrictions during six separate lockdowns since March 2020, representing the longest accretive lockdown for any megacity in the world Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, last time went through 234 straight days of lockdown. In Melbourne, people were seen réclame and clapping from their sundecks, while buses honked cornucopias continuously at 1159 pm on Thursday when lockdown restrictions in place since early August ended Numerous venues, including foo...