By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Police fanned out across the centre of Australia s second-largest city of Melbourne on Wednesday in a bid to keep a lid on a third day of protests over COVID-19 lockdown curbs, as the state of Victoria recorded another rise in infections. Police made more than 60 arrests on Tuesday after more than 2,000 protesters damaged property, blocked a busy freeway and injured three police after authorities shut construction sites for two weeks to limit the spread of the disease. Protesters again gathered in groups roaming across city streets on Wednesday despite pleas for them to remain home, but largely avoided clashes with busloads of police, while state police chief Shane Patton vowed to prevent more violence. I m not going to talk about the tactics we ll deploy today, Patton told media in Melbourne. I want them to be completely unaware of what we re going to do and what capacity they may face. By early afternoon, television footage showed several hundred prote
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