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Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan said he will be requesting the cap on hotel quarantine in the state is halved to 512 people a week. We are awaiting a response [from the federal government]. But we expect a positive response because obviously the pressure on our quarantine system sometimes results in these sorts of things occurring.
READ MORE We pay for these hotels, state governments cover the cost, not the Commonwealth.
Mr McGowan said test results are forthcoming after contact tracers uncovered 337 contacts linked to the Victorian man who contracted COVID-19 while in a state hotel quarantine facility. No new local cases have been reported in the last 24 hours.
Western Australia has recorded one new locally-acquired coronavirus case since the Perth and Peel regions where plunged into a three-day lockdown.
The new outbreak, linked to a Perth quarantine hotel, sparked a war of words between WA Premier Mark McGowan and the federal government.
Canberra has rejected Mr McGowan s suggestions that defence and immigration facilities be used and says they are simply inappropriate and unsuitable.
Western Australia has recorded one new locally-acquired coronavirus case since the Perth and Peel regions where plunged into a three-day lockdown
LATEST COVID-19 DEVELOPMENTS: Western Australia has recorded an additional positive COVID-19 case within the community, in a person who had visited one of the locations visited by a Victorian man.
Highest day of quarantine cases all year as officials eye growing overseas cases
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Arrivals from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan constitute the majority of Sydneyâs COVID-19 variant cases over the past month, as health officials monitor the growing number of cases in Latin America and Europe.
Before March, the highest number of variant cases in Sydneyâs hotel quarantine system came from Lebanon, where the UK B.1.1.7 variant remains rife.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has repeated that national hotel quarantine cases are not on the rise.
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West Australian premier Mark McGowan is under fire over a COVID-19 outbreak stemming from hotel quarantine that has plunged Perth into at least a three-day lockdown on the eve the Anzac Day long weekend.
The quarantine failure has put WA at risk of a wider outbreak and also ended the run of zero local cases in Victoria, where there are also fears more cases will emerge.
A Victorian man acquired COVID-19 while in hotel quarantine in Perth even though WA health authorities had warned the McGowan government it considered the venue high risk for room-to room transmission.
The man tested positive in Melbourne on Friday after flying in from WA with more than 250 other passengers.
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The man had been in self-isolation since being identified as a close contact and tested positive on Thursday.
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The first leak prompted West Australian Premier Mark McGowan to push for a reduction in flights from India at Thursday’s national cabinet, remarking that 40 per cent of his state’s overseas cases in the past month had been travellers from the south Asian nation.
There are 29 active COVID-19 cases in Western Australia’s hotel quarantine system, compared to 90 in NSW.
In Sydney’s CBD, there have been two reported instances of possible transmission of COVID-19 within the hotel quarantine system in the past week: one at the Adina hotel and one at the Mercure.