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No covid-19 sufferers clogging up our quarantine... I hope this is for good. I know it's not but it feels great thanks to our Labor Premier Mark (the hero) MacGowan now if he would only stop logging, my heart would swell.
Western Australia has no active coronavirus cases, including in hotel quarantine, for the first time since the pandemic arrived on our doorstep in February 2020.
The zero cases tally will likely be fleeting, with 140 infections detected in Perth’s quarantine hotels this year – three of those seeping out into the community through two security guards and a returned traveller.
Nearly half of the cases, 59, were recorded in April alone, and one-third of the total arrived via COVID-stricken India.
Since then, WA has halved its intake of returned international travellers from 1025 a week to 530 and temporarily restricted entry for people in India.
People must also return a negative test before boarding a flight to Australia.
The changes have reduced the number of positive cases detected in hotel quarantine since May to just seven, with none detected so far in June.
The virus will eventually have to be let into the country when international borders reopen, which federal budget papers predict could be mid-2022, depending on the uptake in vaccinations.
Chief Health Officer Andy Robertson said WA needed to achieve a 70-80 per cent vaccination level to prevent future lockdowns in response to outbreaks once international borders open.
To Thursday, 76,283 people, or 3.6 per cent of the WA population over 16 years old, were fully immunised and a further 444,401 had received their first jab.
Premier Mark McGowan expanded WA’s vaccine rollout this week to include anyone over 30, pushing ahead of the federal government’s rollout schedule.
The vaccine program expansion means more than 54 per cent of the population can book in to be immunised.
Western Australia has no active coronavirus cases, including in hotel quarantine, for the first time since the pandemic arrived on our doorstep in February 2020.
The zero cases tally will likely be fleeting, with 140 infections detected in Perth’s quarantine hotels this year – three of those seeping out into the community through two security guards and a returned traveller.
Nearly half of the cases, 59, were recorded in April alone, and one-third of the total arrived via COVID-stricken India.
Since then, WA has halved its intake of returned international travellers from 1025 a week to 530 and temporarily restricted entry for people in India.
People must also return a negative test before boarding a flight to Australia.
The changes have reduced the number of positive cases detected in hotel quarantine since May to just seven, with none detected so far in June.
The virus will eventually have to be let into the country when international borders reopen, which federal budget papers predict could be mid-2022, depending on the uptake in vaccinations.
Chief Health Officer Andy Robertson said WA needed to achieve a 70-80 per cent vaccination level to prevent future lockdowns in response to outbreaks once international borders open.
To Thursday, 76,283 people, or 3.6 per cent of the WA population over 16 years old, were fully immunised and a further 444,401 had received their first jab.
Premier Mark McGowan expanded WA’s vaccine rollout this week to include anyone over 30, pushing ahead of the federal government’s rollout schedule.
The vaccine program expansion means more than 54 per cent of the population can book in to be immunised.
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