MasterChef judge Melissa Leong slips on a floral face mask as Melbourne goes back into lockdown

With Melbourne returning to lockdown at midnight on Wednesday, Melissa Leong is doing her bit to try and stave off the coronavirus.

In a post on Instagram Stories, the 38-year-old MasterChef judge shared a photo of herself wearing a floral face mask over her nose and mouth. 

‘Stay safe, Melbourne,’ she captioned the photo, flashing a peace sign at the camera.

The stylish star also wore a camel-coloured coat, which she teamed with a black baker boy cap. 

And on the back of Melbourne’s recent spike in coronavirus cases, the food critic urged hospitality workers in other cities to do the right thing.

In a separate post on Instagram Stories on Wednesday, Melissa shared: ‘Dear hospitality owners of Sydney. You can see that this s**t isn’t over.

‘Even if you’ve been lax on social distancing, now is the time to enforce it. Let’s not go down in flames please.’

On Tuesday, Melissa confessed she was feeling nervous about being forced back into lockdown.  

‘Here in Victoria, we’re back to stage 3 restrictions for 6 weeks,’ she wrote on Instagram. 

‘It is safe to say as a community, [we] are all feeling more than a bit on edge at the uncertainty of what this means for ourselves, our jobs, our families and our businesses.’ ⁣

Despite the uncertainty of the situation, she urged her followers to ‘try and remain calm’. ⁣

‘I’m no spokesperson for anyone other than myself, but if I could share anything with you right now, it’s this: Try and remain calm,’ she continued. 

‘Stick to the rules in place, now that we’re back in a more structured setting. Remember kindness and generosity to others when you’re out in the wild… and please keep those mitts clean.’ ⁣ 

On Wednesday, Melbourne recorded another 134 cases of coronavirus as the city prepared to go into a six-week lockdown.

Meanwhile, the borders between New South Wales and Victoria were closed at midnight on Tuesday in an effort to contain the spread of the virus.