WA coronavirus cases will likely end in snap lockdown, Chief Health Officer warns

The “hard and fast” snap lockdown used to manage COVID-19 outbreaks in other states is the “likely outcome” if WA were to also experience an outbreak, the state’s Chief Health Officer Dr Andrew Robertson says.

Dr Robertson said there appeared to be a “very good rationale” for cities to impose hard, snap lockdowns in the event of a coronavirus outbreak.

“It would depend … on the circumstances,” Dr Robertson told ABC Radio Perth.

“How many cases we had, how much community spread, whether it’s one outbreak.

“There’s a number of factors that would come into it, but certainly that would be a likely outcome if we had to do it in certain circumstances.”