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      <text>The state of Victoria enters lockdown for the sixth time since the beginning of the pandemic, joining New South Wales and Queensland, after a currently unexplained increase in new cases of COVID-19. </text>
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      <text>The state of Victoria enters lockdown for the fifth time since the pandemic began, after a spike in cases spreading south from the New South Wales outbreak. </text>
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    <text>The state of Victoria enters a lockdown for the fifth time since the pandemic began, after experiencing an increase in COVID-19 cases spreading south from the New South Wales outbreak. </text>
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    <text>Iran imposes a 10-day lockdown in 23 of 31 provinces in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19 amid a fourth wave of the pandemic. </text>
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      <text>The government agrees to tighten the lockdown measures including to keep schools closed but allow Leaving Cert students to attend three days per week and close non-essential construction project. The measures will remain in place until the end of January. </text>
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    <text>The government also agrees to tighten the lockdown measures including keeping schools closed but allowing Leaving Cert students to attend three days per week and also suspending non-essential construction projects. These measures will remain in place until the end of January. </text>
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  <subtext>Deputy Premier John Barilaro said stay-at-home orders were being introduced for all of regional NSW &quot;to protect our communities from the evolving COVID situation in Sydney&quot;. </subtext>
  <text>New South Wales enters a statewide lockdown which also applied to all regional parts of the state that required people to stay-at-home as well as closing all non-essential retail premises and hospitality venues will revert to takeaway services after a record 466 new cases was reported in the past 24 hours. </text>
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