WA COVID-19 lockdown: One new local case reported as Anzac Day plans changed for Perth and Peel regions

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Western Australia has confirmed one new local case of COVID-19.

Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan said he will be requesting the cap on hotel quarantine in the state is halved to 512 people a week.

During the press conference, Mr McGowan said no new local cases have been reported in the last 24 hours, but that was later updated by the state's health department. A three-day lockdown has begun in the Perth and Peel regions after a leak in hotel quarantine. The lockdown is scheduled to end at midnight on Monday.

"We will be pushing very hard the Light Up The Dawn driveway services, which happened last year and was very successful because no-one could go anywhere - and unfortunately that is exactly what has happened this Anzac Day," the CEO of RSLWA, John McCourt, told SBS News.

 

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It seems as if Morriscum is determined to punish WA and Labor states for being so successful.

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Lockdown extended

Cases cases cases.... just in time to renew that State of Emergency in WA!

King Mark the Second will lock his subjects down for weeks now

How long can the federal govt put off rolling out a national quarantine system, using our military bases as secure locations? Hotel quarantine in inner cities is a series of set backs or disasters waiting to happen& must be replaced. Air force bases are the logical answer.

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