As parts of WA go into their third lockdown, how did we get here?
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Premier Mark McGowan was lost in his thoughts after switching off the lights on fortress Western Australia for a third time on Friday afternoon knowing this may be the time the state is unable to dodge a bullet.
Having just delivered an address to the state that Perth and Peel would go into a three-day lockdown from midnight and fielding an onslaught of questions from journalists, he was able to just sit in the Dumas House media room and absorb all that happened in the past 72 hours as the Health Minister Roger Cook took over the podium for the back end of the dramatic press conference.
As parts of WA go into their third lockdown, how did we get here?
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Millions of Western Australians have been plunged into a three-day lockdown after two cases of coronavirus were recorded on Friday.
From midnight residents in the Perth and Peel region will be locked down until Tuesday morning, meaning Anzac Day dawn services are cancelled.
Pubs and restaurants can only supply take away food and residents can only leave home for essential reasons such as exercise and medical care including a vaccination.
Private gatherings are banned, gyms and nightclubs are closed but weddings and funerals are allowed to go ahead with 100 guests wearing masks.
Masks must be worn from 6pm tonight - including at a packed rugby match and basketball match in Perth - even though the lockdown doesn t kick in until midnight to allow police time to set up checkpoints.
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West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has announced Perth and Peel will go into a three-day lockdown, effective from midnight Friday.
The news comes after a COVID-19 cluster was identified at the Mercure Hotel Perth on Wednesday with the virus spreading among quarantining guests in separate rooms.
Premier Mark McGowan announcing the three-day lockdown.
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A mother, her four-year-old daughter and a Victorian man contracted the virus while in the hotel.
The mother and childâs infections were detected on April 16 and five days later were genomically linked to a âUK strainâ COVID-positive husband and wife who arrived from India on April 10.
Perth Plunged Into Three-Day Lockdown After COVID-19 Outbreak
Metropolitan Perth and the Peel region will go into a three-day lockdown from midnight on Friday after a hotel quarantine outbreak led to community transmission.
Western Australia (WA) Premier Mark McGowan says the lockdown is a necessary measure after two people, including a man who stayed in the hotel and completed quarantine before flying to Melbourne, spent days in the community while infectious.
Anzac Day dawn services will be cancelled and all people in the affected regions must wear masks when leaving their homes from 6p.m. on Friday.
“I know this is hard to take and I wish we didn’t need to be doing this,” McGowan told reporters.
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