SYDNEY/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Emel Evcin first heard on a phone call with a friend that nearby COVID-19 cases had rendered her Melbourne apartment block quarantined, yet on checking through the curtains, she saw not medical staff but law enforcement.
"I looked outside from my window and no nurses, no cleaners, no food - just lots of cops," the 42-year-old mother of two told Reuters by phone from her two-bedroom flat. "This is not a lockdown, this is a lockup."
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