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Aus island state enters snap lockdown
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IANS | 16 Oct, 2021
Parts of Australia's island state of Tasmania entered a three-day snap
lockdown and the next 48 hours remain critical, Premier Peter Gutwein
announced on Saturday.
Under the restrictions, residents in the
southern parts of the state including capital city Hobart, must stay at
home unless very limited reasons such as shopping for urgent household
supplies within 5 km of home -- only one person from a household at any
one time, attending medical or health care appointments, being a
permitted worker, or caring for a vulnerable person or for other
compassionate reasons, reports Xinhua news agency.
Addressing the
media, Gutwein said the aim of the authorities is to make the lockdown
"short and sharp", and committed grants to support low income, casual
and self-employed workers who have lost income due to an inability to
work.
The snap lockdown on Friday night came after a
Covid-positive traveller from the state of New South Wales entered
Tasmania without valid border pass and breached the hotel quarantine
rules.
Gutwein said he asked Tasmania Police to "consider all
avenues" for increasing the punishment on the man who has been fined
A$3,000 ($2,225) for the breaches.
"I have expressed to Tasmania
Police that the sum of the fine that this individual has received at the
moment simply doesn't appear to be in line with the crime," Gutwein
said.
"This is a breach that has brought southern Tasmania to a
standstill and I have requested that they consider what other action can
be taken against this person."
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| Customs Exchange Rates |
| Currency |
Import |
Export |
US Dollar
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₹95.3
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₹93.6 |
UK Pound
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₹127.7
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₹123.7 |
Euro
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₹110.65
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₹106.9 |
| Japanese
Yen |
₹59.75 |
₹57.9 |
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