“I ask everyone to co-operate with our contact tracing teams,” McGowan said. McGowan said the Perth and Peel communities must go back to wearing masks inside and outside and urged people to start doing so immediately. Children 12 and under are exempt, and masks are not required when doing vigorous outdoor exercise.
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The positive cases come as Australia rolls out Covid-19 vaccines nationwide. McGowan said because the cases were picked up early the state would avoid moving into a lockdown at this time, however that could change as early as Sunday. “We understand that on the evening of Thursday the 29th of April he developed symptoms, which he thought was related to his Covid Pfizer vaccine,” McGowan said of case 1001.
Thousands of Australians Stranded in India
The federal government has promised to help Australians stranded in India get back once flights resume.
“As soon as it’s possible for us to look at flights to bring them back to Australia, we will be doing all that we can to make that happen,” Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews told Sky News on Wednesday.
There are about 9000 Australians now stranded in India after a ban of flights from the country until at least May 15. Both flights from India to Sydney and repatriation flights to Darwin are paused, as well as indirect flights from India via Doha, Dubai, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur.
Australian COVID tests in India ‘not accurate or not believable : Mark McGowan27/04/2021|4min
Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan has declared Australia has a “problem with India” and said COVID-19 tests conducted in India for returning Australians either “aren’t accurate or aren’t believable”.
It comes after four people in hotel quarantine in Perth have tested positive for coronavirus after spending time in India prior to boarding a flight from Kuala Lumpur.
Western Australia health authorities confirmed 78 out of 79 people on the flight had been in India, sparking concerns of further infections.
National Cabinet previously agreed Australians returning from India would need to be tested before leaving the sub-continent and would also need to spend three days in an alternative location while waiting the result before boarding a flight home.
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Crown Perth extends suspension of gaming operations for four more days despite easing of local COVID-19 lockdown
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Gaming and hospitality operations at Crown Perth will remain suspended for at least another four days after the government of Western Australia announced the implementation of interim restrictions for the Perth metropolitan region.
Perth had been placed into a three-day “circuit-breaker” lockdown from last Friday after a Victorian man who had been in hotel quarantine in Perth later tested positive upon returning home to Melbourne. It is believed the man, who had visited a number of locations across Perth upon completing his stay in quarantine, acquired the disease from an infectious family quarantining in the same hotel.