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Subscribe to the Evening Standard on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7RQon_YwCnp_LbPtEwW65w?sub_confirmation=1 More than 1,000 Australiandefence force personnel will door-knock the two Victorian suburbs at the heart of the latest outbreak of Covid-19, with residents offered free testing, as 33 more cases of the virus were identified in the state overnight.
On Thursday morning the premier, Daniel Andrews, said residents could expect to see “hundreds and hundreds” of door-knockers “inviting them to come and get a free test, whether they be symptomatic or asymptomatic”.
Half of the residents of Broadmeadows and Keilor Downs – suburbs with the highest number of community transmission cases – will be tested over the next three days.
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