An urgent alert has been issued for 15 venues in Perth after they were visited by a security guard working at a quarantine hotel who tested positive to Covid.
The city, along with the Peel region and Western Australia s South West, will enter a harsh five-day lockdown from 6pm on Sunday after the man in his 20s returned the positive result.
Residents who visited any of the 15 locations, including a Coles supermarket, a KFC and a 7-Eleven at specific dates and times have been told to get tested immediately and self-isolate until they receive a negative result.
The venues are spread across the suburbs of Maylands, Midland, Morley, Cloverdale, Burswood, North Perth, Perth and Nedlands.
The man tested positive on Saturday night sparking a five-day lockdown for Western Australia s Perth, Peel and South West regions after the state had gone 10 months without a community case.
According to
The Australian ($), the Queensland government is considering flying international travellers into remote workers camps after an outbreak of the UK COVID-19 strain at a Brisbane hotel led to hundreds of people being forced to repeat quarantine.
The plan, which could be rolled out nationally and was originally backed by police last year before being dropped following a fall in community transmissions, will be discussed today by Queensland Health, police, and managers of proposed facilities.
In other domestic COVID-19 news:
Residents of 14 Sydney suburbs have been warned to check for symptoms after virus fragments were found at a West Hornsby treatment plant: Glenorie, Wahroonga, Thornleigh, Pennant Hills, Cherrybrook, Castle Hill, Galston, Dural, Westleigh, Glenhaven, Waitara, Hornsby, Normanhurst and West Pennant Hills
Covid 19 coronavirus: Sydney s Northern Beaches cluster grows by 15
20 Dec, 2020 11:47 PM
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New South Wales has recorded 15 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, all of which are linked to the Avalon (Northern Beaches) cluster – bringing the total cases linked to the cluster to 83.
It comes after the state recorded 30 new coronavirus cases yesterday, of which 28 were linked to the cluster.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says more than 38,000 people came forward for testing, a record number of tests for the state.
Sydney s Northern Beaches area went into lockdown at 5pm (local time) on Saturday and will stay in lockdown until midnight on Wednesday. For residents in the area, it means that they can only leave their home for essential purposes such as for work, for compassionate grounds, for exercise or to go shopping.