Melbourne’s lockdown will be extended for another seven days as the Victorian authorities remain concerned about the high transmission rate of the Indian variant of the CCP virus. On Wednesday, Acting Premier James Merlino confirmed that Greater Melbourne would remain in lockdown for one more week. At the same time, some restrictions in regional Victoria will ease from 11.59 pm on Thursday as scheduled. “I know that this is not the news that everyone wants to hear for Melbourne today,” Merlino said. “But given the cases that we’ve had and that we are still seeing, the Chief Health Officer had no choice but to put this advice to government, and the government had no choice but to accept that advice from the Chief Health Officer.” “We’ve got to run this to ground because if we don’t, people will die.” The five reasons to leave home remain for Melbourne residents: shopping for food …