WA now has 90 known confirmed cases of coronavirus.
Western Australia has recently confirmed another 26 cases of coronavirus, which now brings the total people infected to 90.
A breakdown of the newly confirmed 26 cases 12 are men and 14 are women and they are aged from 18 through to 72.
With an 18-year-old now becoming infected in WA, this will no doubt send shockwaves throughout the community that young-adults aren’t as immune as they may have first thought.
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Roger Cook confirmed that at this stage they known 15 of the new cases have come from travel or close contact of travellers. Which means 9 of the new confirmed cases their source of infection is unknown at this stage.
The 26 new confirmed cases are WA’s biggest daily increase yet – seeing our states total increase by 140% in a day and approximately 529% in the last week.
Despite the 26 new cases recorded in WA, NSW saw a spike of 83 new cases taking the state’s total to 436.
QLD recorded 37 and VIC 51.
More to come.
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