Brutal Western Australia lockdown is STILL going ahead despite the state recording zero new coronavirus cases for the third day in a row – after Mark McGowan feared the mutant UK strain had spread all over Perth
Western Australia has recorded zero new coronavirus cases for the third day in a row as Perth and other parts of the state remain in a brutal lockdown.
A Perth quarantine hotel security guard contracted the highly-contagious UK strain of the virus, which sparked a five-day lockdown of the city and the state’s Peel and south-west regions until at least Friday.
The infected hotel security guard worked two 12-hour shifts at the Sheraton Four Points hotel on both January 26 and 27 while there were four cases at the hotel, including two with the highly-infectious UK variant and one confirmed to have the South African strain.
Premier Mark McGowan said that if the streak of zero cases continue until the end of the week the lockdown will be lifted from Friday as planned.
‘I want to get back to normal as quickly as possible. But we need to see at least 14 days of no community transmission before we can return to our unique life here in Perth, and WA, south-western Peel, that we were all enjoying throughout January,’ he said on Wednesday.