The Perth Covid cluster has spread to New Zealand with two travellers from the same household forced into isolation after being declared casual contacts of an infected man.
New Zealand s Ministry of Health scrambled to contact 1,000 passengers who arrived in the country on direct flights from Perth on April 19, 21 and 23 after the city and the Peel region was plunged into a three-day lockdown from midnight Friday. Of those, two people from the same household have let health authorities know they were in the Perth domestic terminal at the time specified in the locations of interest page, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
As Perth and Peel residents mark Anzac Day within the confines of lockdown, Western Australia s health authorities are on high alert for further local cases of COVID-19.
A second locally-acquired case linked to the Perth Mercure Hotel outbreak was announced on Saturday afternoon - a man in his 40s who dined at the same restaurant as two confirmed cases.
The two cases were a 54-year-old Victorian man who appears to have contracted the virus from a fellow returned traveller while in hotel quarantine at the Mercure, and his female friend from Kardinya, whom he was visiting.
Mark McGowan (pictured on Friday) has lashed the Federal Government for not providing better quarantine facilities, saying CBD hotels were not suitable
The number of Covid exposure sites in Perth has increased, with affected venues now including a busy Coles supermarket and Kmart department store.
Kung Fu Kitchen in Morley, in Perth s northern suburbs, has been officially named as a Covid hotspot, taking the state s total to six.
The number of community transmission sites has grown to 26, with new venues including Target at Lakeside Joondalup, Coles and Kmart at Morley Galleria, and Dynamic Music Academy in Wangara.
WA Health said anyone who visited the six hotspot restaurants must get tested and self-isolate for 14 days regardless of the result.
Anyone who attended the other exposure sites should get tested and self-isolate until getting a negative result.