Four Points hotel to continue being used for quarantine despite transmission mystery
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Health authorities and police will continue to use the Four Points hotel in the Perth CBD as a quarantine facility while investigating how a security guard caught the more contagious UK COVID-19 strain while working there last week.
WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson said he had not received any advice from WA Health to suggest they stop using the hotel, where four COVID-positive cases are staying, including two UK variant cases and one case with the South African strain.
WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson said the hotel would continue to be used.
School holidays extended and some surgeries cancelled
Students in the regions will be given an extra week holiday, the premier said. For a majority of schools, school was due to start tomorrow. That has now been put on hold, and schools will be closed until next week, following the lockdown measures. It is in effect an extension of the school holidays. Elective surgery and procedures for categories two and three will be suspended from Tuesday, 2 February, and category one and urgent category two surgery will continue, he added.
Perth s CBD will once more be deserted after Premier Mark McGowan announced a five-day lockdown.(Sharon Smith)