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As calls for the state’s Health Minister to resign mounted this week following the death of young Aishwarya Aswath,
WAtoday can now reveal staff at two major Perth hospitals again called ‘code yellows’, overwhelmed by the demand for beds.
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital declared the internal emergency on Monday, and again on Tuesday. So did Fiona Stanley Hospital on Tuesday, as nurses told of serious understaffing in wards.
Health Minister Roger Cook has been under fire over the resourcing of WA hospitals.
On Friday, both facilities had several ambulances ramped outside as they struggled with a steady stream of high priority patients rolling into emergency departments.
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It was the news no one wanted to hear on a Sunday afternoon, but from 6pm most West Australians will go back into full lockdown after 10 months of no COVID-19 community spread.
The announcement by Premier Mark McGowan comes after a quarantine hotel security guard tasked with watching a floor of returned overseas travellers tested positive for the virus on the weekend.
Police Commissioner Chris Dawson, Chief Health Officer Dr Andrew Robertson and Premier Mark McGowan.
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Authorities suspect the man, aged in his 20s, could have contracted the highly contagious UK strain of the virus, which has been wreaking havoc across Europe, on Tuesday or Wednesday.