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No new coronavirus cases in WA as lockdown continues after hotel quarantine guard infected
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Hundreds of cars queued early on Tuesday morning at a drive-through COVID testing clinic in Joondalup.
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Western Australia has recorded no new local COVID-19 cases overnight after more than 16,000 tests were carried out on Monday in a bid to detect any outbreak.
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The guard delivered medication to an infected hotel quarantine guest
People in quarantine at the hotel must be tested again before they can leave This is our second zero day in a row now. Given the amount of testing completed this is very encouraging news, WA Premier Mark McGowan said.
Coronavirus lockdown prompts questions over how hotel quarantine system failed
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The security guard contracted the virus after working at the Sheraton Four Points hotel.
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WA authorities have defended Perth s hotel quarantine system despite a security guard testing positive to COVID-19 amid criticism from the state s peak doctor s union.
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Previous hotel quarantine system reviews did not identify problems
How the hotel worker contracted COVID is not yet clear
After nearly 10 months with no community cases, a security guard in his twenties contracted COVID-19 after working at Sheraton Four Points in Perth, throwing the majority of the state s population into a five-day lockdown.
Perth hotel quarantine guard who triggered WA coronavirus lockdown has mutant UK strain
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Mark McGowan says 66 close contacts of the hotel guard are being tested and are in quarantine.
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A hotel security guard who sparked a mass lockdown in Western Australia has contracted the highly contagious UK variant strain of COVID-19, authorities have revealed.
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Tests have come back negative for 13 high-risk contacts
A Perth CBD deli has been added to the list of sites the guard visited