Ring Mayar spends all day knocking on doors in the western suburbs of Melbourne, asking residents if they have a cough, a fever or chills. It later circulated in low-income neighbourhoods in the Melbourne area with sizable migrant populations, including inside a supermarket distribution centre. Officials continued door-knocking and blitz-testing efforts, warning that if residents did not comply, the whole state of Victoria, Australia’s second-most populous, could be affected. People wait in chairs and cars during testing for Covid-19 at a drive- and walk-through pop-up venue in Melbourne. “But in the end, we are humans, and we don’t want to look at one another like aliens,” he says.

Source: The Irish Times July 06, 2020 05:30 UTC