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Perth COVID lockdown update: Mark McGowan calls on federal government to offer up quarantine facilities
West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has again called on the federal government to help establish alternative quarantine sites to city hotels.
Key points:
- Mark McGowan says CBD hotels are “not fit-for-purpose quarantine facilities”
- A government spokesperson said defence bases and immigration centres are “unsuitable” for quarantining
- The Premier again urged visitors to the listed contact sites to get tested for COVID
Mr McGowan was speaking earlier on Saturday, announcing there had been no new cases of community transmission in the state — hours later, a third case was confirmed.
The news came on the first day of a snap three-day lockdown in Perth and the Peel region, which was announced on Friday after a 54-year-old Victorian…
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