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Covid Australia live updates: WA premier Mark McGowan announces three-day lockdown for Perth and Peel after coronavirus case leaves hotel quarantine Covid Australia live updates: WA premier Mark McGowan announces three-day lockdown for Perth and Peel after coronavirus case leaves hotel quarantine
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Fifteen Sydney waterfront workers waiting on coronavirus test results after boarding ship carrying infected sailorsFifteen Sydney waterfront workers waiting on coronavirus test results after boarding ship carrying infected sailors
NSW Health will screen people arriving from Perth at Sydney airport to determine if they’ve visited any of the venues of concern in WA.
Those people will be asked to get tested and isolate until they get a negative result.
Anyone arriving to Sydney after midnight tonight from WA must complete a declaration form from the Service NSW site stating they haven’t been at a venue of concern. The forms are not up yet but the department says they will be available soon.
Conservationists say Australia’s unique marine ecosystems have a “fighting chance” of surviving an onslaught from climate change, pollution and overfishing after the prime minister, Scott Morrison, announced $100m for ocean protection.
The Victorian government has declared QF778 from Melbourne to Perth on Wednesday 21 April as a tier 1 exposure site, meaning anyone on that flight needs to get tested and isolate for 14 days.
After reviewing CCTV and conducting interviews, the entire terminal one at Melbourne airport between 6.30pm and 7.30pm on the same date is now considered a tier 2 exposure site.
People who were in the terminal at this time will need to get tested and isolate until a negative result returns.
More locations may be added, the department has warned. But worth remembering the man went straight into isolation from the airport.
There are at least 10 venues associated with the Melbourne man in Perth, but contact tracing is still under way:There are at least 10 venues associated with the Melbourne man in Perth, but contact tracing is still under way:
Crawley: St Catherine’s College, UWA 17/04/2021 – 21/04/2021Crawley: St Catherine’s College, UWA 17/04/2021 – 21/04/2021
Qantas domestic terminal (T3 - T4) 21/04/2021 11am – 1pmQantas domestic terminal (T3 - T4) 21/04/2021 11am – 1pm
Crawley: St Catherine’s College, UWA – Dining Hall 21/04/2021 7am – 9amCrawley: St Catherine’s College, UWA – Dining Hall 21/04/2021 7am – 9am
Northbridge: City China Garden 20/04/2021 5pm – 8pmNorthbridge: City China Garden 20/04/2021 5pm – 8pm
Northbridge: Good Fortune Roast Duck House 19/04/2021 5pm – 8pmNorthbridge: Good Fortune Roast Duck House 19/04/2021 5pm – 8pm
Subiaco: Fortune Acupuncture Chinese Medical Clinic 19/04/2021 1.30pm – 3pmSubiaco: Fortune Acupuncture Chinese Medical Clinic 19/04/2021 1.30pm – 3pm
Kardinya: Kitchen Inn (takeaway) 19/04/2021 midday – 1.00pmKardinya: Kitchen Inn (takeaway) 19/04/2021 midday – 1.00pm
Crawley: St Catherine’s College, UWA – Dining Hall 19/04/2021 7am – 9amCrawley: St Catherine’s College, UWA – Dining Hall 19/04/2021 7am – 9am
Kardinya: Kitchen Inn 18/04/2021 midday – 2pmKardinya: Kitchen Inn 18/04/2021 midday – 2pm
Mount Pleasant: Brentwood Deli 18/04/2021 8.30am – 9.30amMount Pleasant: Brentwood Deli 18/04/2021 8.30am – 9.30am
East Victoria Park: Bananabro 17/04/2021 5.30pm – 8pmEast Victoria Park: Bananabro 17/04/2021 5.30pm – 8pm
Here’s what Victorian health authorities are saying about the man from Perth who tested positive after arriving back in Victoria:Here’s what Victorian health authorities are saying about the man from Perth who tested positive after arriving back in Victoria:
Face masks will be required while exercising outdoors in Perth and the Peel region, unless it is high exertion. FIFO workers will still be able to leave for work.Face masks will be required while exercising outdoors in Perth and the Peel region, unless it is high exertion. FIFO workers will still be able to leave for work.
WA premier Mark McGowan says they will ramp up testing over the weekend, and then make decisions on Monday about whether the lockdown is extended or if other rules are brought in.WA premier Mark McGowan says they will ramp up testing over the weekend, and then make decisions on Monday about whether the lockdown is extended or if other rules are brought in.
Mark McGowan is increasingly pointed about how quarantine is not a responsibility of the states:Mark McGowan is increasingly pointed about how quarantine is not a responsibility of the states:
Labor leader Anthony Albanese points out lockdowns are only still happening because the vaccine roll-out has been so slow in Australia.Labor leader Anthony Albanese points out lockdowns are only still happening because the vaccine roll-out has been so slow in Australia.
Mark McGowan repeats that outbreaks from hotel quarantine are the risk of having Australians return from overseas. He says hotels are not designed for quarantine, and are full of hundreds of people coming back to Australia.Mark McGowan repeats that outbreaks from hotel quarantine are the risk of having Australians return from overseas. He says hotels are not designed for quarantine, and are full of hundreds of people coming back to Australia.
He points out all the changes they’ve made including HEPA air filters in the hotels, requiring all hotel staff to only work one job, for them to be vaccinated, and to get daily tests, but he says Covid is “insidious”.He points out all the changes they’ve made including HEPA air filters in the hotels, requiring all hotel staff to only work one job, for them to be vaccinated, and to get daily tests, but he says Covid is “insidious”.
He says they’re still trying to make the hotels fit for purpose on the basis of the last report WA had on the hotel quarantine program, but those upgrades were happening while people were still coming back through the system.He says they’re still trying to make the hotels fit for purpose on the basis of the last report WA had on the hotel quarantine program, but those upgrades were happening while people were still coming back through the system.
Q. Why can people go to the rugby and basketball games tonight but not Anzac Day services? Mark McGowan:
Chris Dawson says around 20 people who were on the same flight from Perth to Melbourne as the man who travelled to Melbourne are either on their way back or already back in WA. Police and the health department will determine whether they’re close contacts.
He notes there are no interstate travel restrictions in place at this time (I am guessing that might change to line up with the lockdown as we have seen previously).
Contact tracing is under way, but Chris Dawson says the man from Melbourne who tested positive did not use the Safe WA QR code check-in app for the places he visited. Dawson said his friend who tested positive did, however.
Dawson urges everyone to use the QR code check-in app (albeit that they won’t be able to dine in restaurants or go to pubs for anything other than takeaway this weekend).
Police commissioner Chris Dawson says there is already advice that there is a lot of traffic on the roads, and stresses they will not be preventing people leaving the Perth or Peel region up to midnight:
People who do leave the Perth/Peel region will be expected to wear a mask, regardless of where they are in Western Australia.
Professional sports in Perth will go ahead but only with players and officials. The Wildcats and Western Force rugby game will go ahead with crowds tonight because it’s before midnight, but anything between Saturday and Monday night will not go ahead with crowds.
WA police commissioner Chris Dawson has urged Perth and Peel residents not to rush around tonight ahead of lockdown commencing at midnight:
WA premier Mark McGowan says he has asked for the number of international arrivals per week in WA be cut from 1,025 to 512 per week for the next month:
WA premier Mark McGowan announces a three-day lockdown from midnight tonight until midnight on Monday.
People can only leave home for work, shopping for essentials, medical needs, compassionate requirements, or exercise with a maximum of four people, limited to one hour per day.
Masks are mandatory from 6pm tonight.
Pubs, bars and clubs, except takeaway, are closed. Gyms and indoor sporting venues are closed and no committee sport is permitted.
Playgrounds, skate parks and outdoor recreational facilities; cinemas, entertainment venues and casinos; large religious gatherings and places of worship; and libraries and cultural institutions are all closed. No visitors to hospitals or residential aged care or disability facilities unless there are exceptional circumstances. Weddings and funerals will be permitted, however, with 100-patron capacity not including staff, and masks must be worn.
Anzac Day dawn services in Perth and Peel will not go ahead.
WA premier Mark McGowan says the Victorian man who tested positive was one of two in adjacent rooms to those who tested positive.
He was in Perth for five days before he left for Melbourne yesterday, and has already passed on Covid-19 to one of his close contacts in Perth.
They’re still contact tracing, but he went and had a coffee in Leeming on the 18th, a dinner in Northridge, and stayed at St Catherine’s College at UWA, went to a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, visited Kings Park on the 20th and Northbridge again, and then wen to the airport on the 21st.
He was on QF778 and Victoria is tracing those 257 passengers.
Ahead of WA premier Mark McGowan’s press conference, the WA Chamber of Minerals and Energy informed its members that a three-day lockdown was imminent in the wake of the Covid-19 transmission in hotel quarantine.