Western Australia’s international arrival cap, currently at 512 per week, will be extended until the end of February.
The cap was initially cut down to 512 following a decision at National Cabinet to halve the intake of international arrivals in a bid to reduce the chances of international strains leaking from hotel quarantine.
Speaking on Friday, Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan noted that cap was “due to remain in place until February 15”.
“However as an extra precaution the prime minister has agreed to extend the 512 person per week cap for WA until the end of February,” he said.
“This will give us that extra time to ensure our hotel quarantine systems are as strong as they can be.”
Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan has confirmed there have no new cases of COVID-19 after Perth’s five day lockdown out of more than 42,000 tests and said the lockdown was a success.
“This is a remarkable achievement and the credit belongs to each and every Western Australian who have made sacrifices this week to keep our community safe,” he said.
Mr McGowan also said the lockdown had “done the job it was supposed to do” in stopping community spread and getting Western Australia back to normal faster.
Forty-one-year-old Vivian Porter, originally from Alice Springs, has been sleeping rough in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park for around a year.
The same day that Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan announced the city would be going into a hard COVID-19 lockdown, Vivian was discharged from Royal Perth Hospital, where she had spent three days undergoing treatment for chronic health issues.
The next day, the first full day of lockdown, she was among a group of Aboriginal people from remote communities approached by a WA Police patrol and told to disperse from a public park where they had gathered.
“They came up and told everyone to leave. I was left here alone,” she told NITV News.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/493456.html (Natural News) Health authorities in Western Australia have traced the recent spate of infections there to a hotel security officer. They believe that the security officer was probably infectious for five days before finally testing positive for the Wuhan coronavirus. The officer, who is in his 20s, had visited 15 locations across Perth – sending contact tracers into a frenzy to look for his potential contacts. The incident involving the security guard became the first case of community transmission in 10 months.
In response, the government of Western Australia ordered a five-day lockdown for the city of Perth and the Peel and South West regions. Furthermore, health authorities have identified 60 of the guard’s close contacts and informed them to quarantine themselves for 14 days.