Health
‘It’s eerie’: Rising COVID-19 cases, mandatory masks leave Melbourne a ghost city – The Age
Pedestrian numbers plummeted across the CBD on Thursday and Friday, coinciding with the state’s highest-ever daily coronavirus numbers.
The Age analysis of City of Melbourne pedestrian monitoring data found some of the CBDs busiest places for foot traffic during morning peak hour were emptier last week than during the height of the first lockdown earlier this year.
Between 8am and 9am on Friday, a total of 167 people walked along the footpath on Collins Street outside Southern Cross Station, the lowest non-public holiday weekday total for that time of day since the start of the pandemic.
To put that figure in perspective, duri…
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