Melbourne public housing tower residents fear a repeat lockdown | ABC News

Public housing tower residents who endured the nation's harshest hard lockdown last year say they are concerned not enough has been done to support them this time around. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: https://ab.co/3z5toe1 On Monday, residents from the Flemington and North Melbourne housing towers used a WhatsApp group chat with housing authorities to request an increase to the frequency of deep cleans of the tower blocks, in light of the lockdown. A housing department representative replied that deep sanitisation cleans would occur "if there were a positive case". During the city's deadly second wave last year, nine public housing towers across Flemington and North Melbourne were placed into an unprecedented lockdown to prevent an explosive outbreak. The Victorian Ombudsman last year found the lockdown was justified but carrying it out without any warning breached the residents' human rights. ABC News provides around the clock coverage of news events as they break in Australia and abroad, including the latest coronavirus pandemic updates. It's news when you want it, from Australia's most trusted news organisation. For more from ABC News, click here: https://ab.co/2kxYCZY Watch more ABC News content ad-free on iview: https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1 Go deeper on our ABC News In-depth channel: https://ab.co/2lNeBn2 Like ABC News on Facebook:   / abcnews.au   Follow ABC News on Instagram:   / abcnews_au   Follow ABC News on Twitter:   / abcnews   #ABCNews #ABCNewsAustralia