As Perth and Peel residents mark Anzac Day within the confines of lockdown, Western Australia s health authorities are on high alert for further local cases of COVID-19.
A second locally-acquired case linked to the Perth Mercure Hotel outbreak was announced on Saturday afternoon - a man in his 40s who dined at the same restaurant as two confirmed cases.
The two cases were a 54-year-old Victorian man who appears to have contracted the virus from a fellow returned traveller while in hotel quarantine at the Mercure, and his female friend from Kardinya, whom he was visiting.
Mark McGowan (pictured on Friday) has lashed the Federal Government for not providing better quarantine facilities, saying CBD hotels were not suitable
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