: Was Australia successful in reducing the Covid-19 cases in the Melbourne towers, following the "hard lockdown"? The BBC reported in July that 3,000 people in low-income public housing were put in "hard lockdown"

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Was Australia successful in reducing the Covid-19 cases in the Melbourne towers, following the "hard lockdown"?
The BBC reported in July that 3,000 people in low-income public housing were put in "hard lockdown" in Melbourne (10 zip codes and/or nine tower blocks), meaning their inhabitants were not allowed to leave their apartments, in a move reminiscent of Chinese measures in Wuhan. (Food was delivered to the apartments.) Was this intervention successful in reducing Covid-19 incidence in the area, and if so to what degree?
(The "hard" lockdown has since been lifted, meaning that the inhabitants were then subject only to the broader restrictions that apply elsewhere in the city, but I don't see information in the follow-up article[s] whether the "hard" lockdown has been successful in achieving its medical goals.)

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