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Of those quarantine cases, 24 had arrived on flights from India. In the past two days, Western Australia has recorded eight new hotel quarantine cases, the majority of which have been linked to returned travellers from India. Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan claimed more than half of Australia s active COVID-19 cases were now from people who had returned from India. These days the rate is now over half of our cases are out of India, Mr McGowan told reporters on Wednesday, labelling the situation terribly tragic . Questions over who is allowed to leave and re-enter Australia It follows revelations that Perth s recent three-day lockdown was sparked by a man who was allowed to travel to India for his wedding before returning to Australia.
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Nearly ever single passenger on a Covid-infected flight into Perth on Saturday had recently been in India, as Mark McGowan hits out at the accuracy of Covid-19 testing in the virus-ravaged nation.
The Western Australia premier confirmed four cases of the virus were found in hotel quarantine on Tuesday - all of whom flew into the city from Kuala Lumpur on April 24.
In total, 78 of the 79 passengers onboard the Malaysia Airlines flight MH125 had recently been in India, Mr McGowan confirmed.
The country is battling a deadly surge in coronavirus infections with infected patients dying on the streets outside hospitals, with 352,991 new cases on Monday alone.
26 April 2021 10:04am
Perth is the latest Australian city to head into a snap lockdown aimed at stamping out a COVID-19 cluster resulting from another breach in CBD hotel quarantine.
The three-day lockdown, covering Perth and the Peel region south of the city, comes in response to news a 54-year-old Victorian man, a returned overseas traveller, evidently contracted COVID-19 from guests in an adjoining room.
After leaving quarantine he then visited several locations around the city in Perth’s first case of community transmission in more than a year. On 21 April, he then boarded a plane to Melbourne with 257 passengers and subsequently tested positive following 14 days in hotel quarantine in Perth and five days in the community.