A returned overseas traveller has tested positive to coronavirus after leaving hotel quarantine in Perth but authorities say he is shedding viral particles and is not infectious.
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A returned overseas traveller has produced a positive coronavirus test result after leaving hotel quarantine in Perth but authorities believe he is shedding viral particles and not infectious.
The maritime worker has been placed back into quarantine after returning a positive PCR test on Saturday morning, WA Health said on Sunday.
He had left the Pan Pacific Hotel in Perth a day earlier, having completed 14 days of quarantine.
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During his time in the community, the man stayed at the Ibis hotel in Perth, ate at a restaurant and visited an Optus store and a pharmacy.
Lockdown in the Australian state is expected to be extended beyond Thursday, as authorities reveal a positive Melbourne case travelled to New South Wales while potentially infectious.
They will be retested three and seven days after leaving. Because of the way the floor is set out they were some distance away, so it s fairly unlikely that they would have been infected, Chief Health Officer Andy Robertson told reporters.
All security guards who worked on the floor during the period of infection have tested negative in the last four days and all are vaccinated.
Dr Robertson said one of the infected men had arrived at the hotel on 21 May from Colombia via the United States. He tested positive two days later.
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The man staying next door had been in the hotel since 16 May and returned two negative tests before testing positive on day 13.
Faith in contact tracers at an all time high, but lockdowns still in WAâs COVID-19 arsenal
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The government is keeping its finger on the lockdown trigger despite lauding the efforts of WAâs âmatch fitâ contact tracers who have so far effectively contained two COVID-19 clusters in as many weeks.
Premier Mark McGowan on Thursday announced a significant easing of COVID-19 restrictions from Saturday, a date which will mark the halfway point of the 14-day incubation period since the virus was last in the community.