Perth and the Peel and South West regions of Western Australia will go into a five-day hard lockdown from 6pm local time on Sunday, after one new local COVID-19 case was detected in the state. The new case is a male security guard who was working on the same floor as a person in quarantine with the UK coronavirus variant. Contact tracing is underway, and residents have been asked to get a COVID test if they visited any of several venues listed as potential exposure sites. The lockdown is currently scheduled to last until 6pm on Friday February 5, although Premier Mark McGowan has not ruled out extending the restrictions if necessary.