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New lockdown ratchets up economic pain in Australian city

by Associated Press
| August 8, 2020 12:03 AM

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A bright side for plant nurseries of Melbourne’s first pandemic stay-at-home order was that many householders took the time to garden. But the latest lockdown in Australia’s second-largest city is far tougher.

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