SafeWA app coronavirus contact tracing requirements extended to shops

West Australians will soon have to check-in to a mandatory contact register before shopping, visiting hospitals and getting takeaway food and beverages.

The State Government is expanding mandatory contact registers from February 12 to bolster its rapid contact tracing ability.

The expansion includes supermarkets, shopping centres, pharmacies, hardware stores and bank branches where customers are physically present.

Visitors to public and private hospitals, commercial transport businesses such as party buses and private boat and bus charters, and certain…