One of the nine housing towers in Flemington and North Melbourne that have been placed under heavy lockdown.
Carts loaded with supplies, such as toilet paper and basic food items, are wheeled into the commission flats.
Residents have started scrawling messages to the outside world and sticking them to their windows.
Mass deployments of about 500 police at a time are being stationed throughout the flats, patrolling most floors of the nine towers.
Bags of supplies and boxes of fresh fruit are shipped in by the truckful.
Police officers sanitise their hands outside a tower block.
