Australia to welcome more citizens stranded overseas

The Australian government says come mid-October it will allow 6,000 citizens a week to come home as Melbourne’s second wave comes under control.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said more than 24,000 Australians stranded overseas had registered to return.

In July, the country capped the number of returnees to ease the strain on the mandatory hotel quarantine system.

Mistakes in that system had led to the virus’s re-emergence in the state of Victoria in June.