Mask restrictions and more are back as Western Australia has recorded one new case of COVID-19 in the community.
Western Australia has recorded one new case of COVID-19 in the community overnight in relation to NSW travel.
As a result, restrictions will come into effect immediately for the Perth-Peel region for a minimum period of three days.
COVID-19 Restrictions
The restrictions will come into effect from 12:00pm today and will last for three days.
- Mandatory mask wearing indoors, on public transport, and outdoors where physical distancing is not possible, primary school aged children and those who are exempt are not required to wear masks
- Public events that cannot be restricted to 150 people will be cancelled or played without spectators today – including the Chicken and Beer Festival and AFL West Coast Eagles vs Western Bulldogs match at Optus Stadium.
- 30-person limit in all homes for private gatherings
- Hospitality, entertainment venues (including casino and nightclubs), retail, beauty/hairdressers, recreation centres (including gyms, pilates, yoga, dance and swimming pools) and places of worship can remain open, but must comply with the 2 square metre rule, with a maximum of 150 patrons
- Community sport is permitted
- Wedding and funerals can also proceed but will be limited to a maximum of 150 attendees
- Hospitals will have a maximum of four personal visitors permitted per patient per day – masks will be mandatory for staff and visitors.
- Anyone who enters a regional area from the Perth-Peel region is required to wear a mask as per requirements in Perth-Peel, and travel should be minimised
- Travel to remote Aboriginal Communities will be restricted
Optus Stadium
The match will still go-ahead but as mentioned above the game will be played without fans.
Why the snap restrictions
The WA Government has moved fast due to a woman in her 50s returning a positive COVID-19 test on Saturday night.
It is known that the woman had recently been in Sydney and had brunch at the Lyfe Cafe in Bondi on June 19.
The woman developed symptoms of the virus on Thursday but did not go to work or leave her home on Friday.
She went and got tested at Joondalup Health Campus on Saturday after the Bondi cafe was listed as an exposure site.
Health authorities are to believe she may have been infectious from June 22 to 24 and visited the following locations; Ocean Keys shopping centre in Mindarie, Indian Ocean Brewery, a gym, and a school.
The individual also worked as a physiotherapist and saw clients on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Contract tracers are now working to identify all potential exposure sites, close and casual contacts, including physiotherapy clients who had appointments with her during the infectious period.
Update: Latest Perth COVID-19 exposure sites
WA Health Minister Roger Cook said genomic sequencing results had not been returned as yet, but authorities were “pretty confident” it was the Delta strain.
More to come.
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Feature image: AAP Image/POOL, Tony McDonough
