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No new coronavirus cases in WA as lockdown continues after hotel quarantine guard infected
Western Australia has recorded no new local COVID-19 cases overnight after more than 16,000 tests were carried out yesterday in a bid to detect any outbreak.
Key points:
- Contact tracing efforts are continuing after a hotel guard caught COVID-19
- The guard delivered medication to an infected hotel quarantine guest
- People in quarantine at the hotel must be tested again before they can leave
“This is our second zero day in a row now. Given the amount of testing completed this is very encouraging news,” WA Premier Mark McGowan said.
Parts of WA went into a five-day lockdown on Sunday evening after a hotel security guard working in Perth tested positive to the UK variant strain of COVID-19.
Mr McGowan confirmed the guard’s case could be linked to a…
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