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Welshpool warehouse workers linked to COVID patient told to get tested, quarantine Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Darius Winterfield Save Normal text size Advertisement Western Australiaâs community COVID case, known as patient 986, continued working at a warehouse in Perthâs south-east while he unknowingly had the infectious disease. The man was working at the AMCAP Automotive Distribution Centre in Welshpool while infectious, but the warehouse has not been on WA Healthâs list of potential exposure locations. AMCAP warehouse in Welshpool where patient 986 worked while infectious. Credit:AMCAP Facebook Late Sunday evening a text message from WA Health went out to dozens of workers at the automotive warehouse saying it had âidentified a case of COVID-19 who worked in the offices of AMCAP Distribution Centre, Welshpool whilst infectious between the hours of 7:30-16:45 on 20/4/2021-23/4/2021.â
The coronavirus-infected patient who sparked a three-day lockdown in Perth had provided 'profound' reasons that saw granted travel exemption to go to Covid-ravaged India and then returning to Australia. Health Minister Greg Hunt responded to growing public outrage over the decision to allow a pair of newlyweds back into Australia from India, where the death toll is spiralling and more than 350,000 new cases were recorded on Sunday alone. When asked what he thought of Australians being able to travel in and out of India, the minister said exemptions were 'for the most profound humanitarian or compassionate reasons'. Health Minister Greg Hunt (pictured) has said the groom that was granted an exemption to fly to Covid-riddled India provided 'profound' reasons to travel
Snap three-day lockdown will be relaxed from midnight on Tuesday morning Mask-wearing will stay mandatory in both indoor and outdoor public settings Bars, restaurants and pubs can reopen as long as they offer seated service only Schools will resume, but only primary school pupils won't have to wear a mask Premier Mark McGowan said the weekend's strict lockdown had 'done its job'
WA Premier Mark McGowan says the state has recorded no new locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 on the second day of a three-day snap lockdown. Mr McGowan told a media conference this afternoon one positive COVID case had been detected in hotel quarantine. "We have recorded one additional case in hotel quarantine, which is a returning resident who has travelled back from India," he said. He said a man in his 40s was confirmed to be infected with coronavirus yesterday. "Late yesterday afternoon, Western Australia Health advised the public that one new COVID-19 case had been recorded in the community," Mr McGowan said.
The Perth Covid cluster has spread to New Zealand with two travellers from the same household forced into isolation after being declared casual contacts of an infected man. New Zealand's Ministry of Health scrambled to contact 1,000 passengers who arrived in the country on direct flights from Perth on April 19, 21 and 23 after the city and the Peel region was plunged into a three-day lockdown from midnight Friday. 'Of those, two people from the same household have let health authorities know they were in the Perth domestic terminal at the time specified in the locations of interest page,' the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
Perth and the region of Peel remain in lockdown until at least midnight Monday after two cases moved through the community, with fresh suggestions that some restrictions will be extended.