Western Australia's vaccination campaign will begin on February 22 with priority groups including international border staff, healthcare workers and employees in the aged care and disability sector.
Current lockdown ends, pending no further local cases, as planned at 6pm tomorrow
Perth, Peel and the South-West will end its five-day lockdown as planned
Some COVID safe measures to continue to keep WA safe
South-West will return straight to pre-lockdown conditions like the rest of regional WA
Perth and Peel subject to transitional restrictions until 12.01am, Sunday, February 14
The Perth, Peel and South-West five-day lockdown will end as planned at 6pm tomorrow, pending no further local cases.
A post-lockdown transition period for the Perth and Peel regions to keep Western Australia safe and help resume a more COVID-safe way of life will come into effect from 6pm on Friday and remain in place until 12.01am Sunday, 14 February – allowing for the full 14-day incubation period to run its course.
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Health Minister Roger Cook has issued an urgent plea to West Australians to get tested if they are feeling unwell after testing rates plummeted on day three of the lockdown.
On Tuesday the minister reported an âencouragingâ 16,490 tests had been completed on the first full day of lockdown following the release of 18 exposure sites across Perth that a hotel quarantine security guard who contracted COVID-19 had visited last week while infectious.
COVID-19 testing rates have plummeted in Perth.
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The rush prompted concerns from the public that testing sites were ill-equipped to deal with the testing crush but by day two of the lockdown, testing rates had dropped to 12,326 and by Wednesday they plunged to 7767.
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More venues now require QR code check-ins during Perth COVID lockdown.
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As the majority of Western Australia s population spends another day in lockdown, measures to tighten the state s contact tracing system have come in earlier than planned.
Takeaway food and drink outlets, shopping centres and supermarkets are just a few of the new locations where people now have to check in with a QR code or on a paper form.
Mandatory contact registers were due to be expanded on Friday, February 12, but after the state s first community case in almost 10 months, the changes were brought in early on Tuesday morning.