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West Australian authorities are unsure whether the state’s latest positive COVID-19 case is shedding viral particles from a past infection, or if he contracted the disease recently from a traveller who flew from Queensland to Perth.
The fly-in, fly-out worker in his 30s returned a weak positive test for COVID-19 before testing negative, with the government confident the new case won’t lead to another lockdown in Perth.
The man flew out to FMG’s Cloudbreak mine on July 20.
Credit:Glenn Hunt/File photo
In an unusual twist, the FIFO worker had previously been sick with coronavirus in March and April 2020, leading authorities to question whether he might be a “shedder”.