Cleaner Who Lost Job Throughout COVID Pandemic Wins $59 Million Lottery Prize

Revealing that sometimes your luck can turn on a dime, a man in Australia who worked as a cleaner to foot the bill after losing his task throughout a COVID shutdown is celebrating a multi-million-dollar lotto win.

The unnamed male from North Melbourne held the only winning ticket in Thursday night’s Powerball draw. His $AUS 80 million ($ 59 million) windfall made him the biggest ever win in the state of Victoria and the 3rd biggest in his country’s history.

He had bought his ticket online, and when he saw his numbers come up, which were 17, 10, 4, 19, 26, 23, 21, and 7, he faced a sleepless night until the money struck his bank account.

” I lost my source of income during one of the several lockdowns here in Melbourne,” he said, according to 7 News. “We had only just purchased a house and didn’t see it coming. I have been working as a cleaner since to make ends satisfy.”

On Thursday, Melbourne was because of end its 6th lockdown considering that the pandemic started.

However, after 20 new COVID cases were reported, Victoria state Premier Dan Andrews said stay-at-home orders for Australia’s 2nd city would stay in place till August 19.

Andrews said there was too much unpredictability around brand-new COVID cases and “a lot of unanswered concerns … for us to securely come out of lockdown now,” Australia’s ABC News reported.

The number of infections in the South Pacific nation is reasonably low compared with the remainder of the world, with around 37,000 cases and the death toll striking 944 on Wednesday.

According to Reuters, less than 25% of the population is vaccinated, and stop-start lockdowns are continuing throughout the nation, running the risk of further task losses and an economic crisis.

It indicates that the lottery win could not have come at a much better time. As paying off his mortgage and setting up his kids for life, the winner wanted his reward to do excellent for others.

” Like for so many individuals, these lockdowns have been tough for our family,” the man stated. “I am going to attempt and assist everyone.”

Powerball, run under The Lott’s master brand name, is Australia’s most significant official jackpotting lottery game. The possibilities of winning the jackpot are believed to be over 134 million to one. Unlike U.S. lottery games, the profits aren’t taxed.

” There’s a lot we will have the ability to do with this prize,” he stated, “It will alter a lot of individuals’ lives.”