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Victoria’s shutdown threatens critical deliveries – The Australian Financial Review
Critical deliveries of food, medicines and school supplies are at risk as a midnight lockdown of distribution centres, required by Victoria’s virus shutdown, threatened to disrupt supply lines and parcel deliveries.
“It’s like the Suez Canal coming down a drainpipe,” she said.
“We’ve had every major customer calling saying ‘you are going to give us capacity aren’t you?'” Ms Holgate said.
“Your big customers like your Kogans, your Officeworks, your Cotton Ons, all Melbourne-based, and 23,000 small businesses came online in the COVID quarter – April, May, June,” she said.
As Victoria recorded 450 new cases and another 11 deaths on Friday, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews came under pressure from Prime Mini…
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