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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.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Western Australia state recorded one new locally acquired coronavirus case on Saturday, as more than 2 million people in the state began a three-day snap lockdown after a COVID-19 outbreak in a hotel quarantine led to community transmission.
The lockdown was ordered after a returning traveller who tested negative on release from a Perth quarantine hotel later tested positive for COVID-19, with authorities suspecting he became infected while in the hotel.
The latest case increased the outbreak to three confirmed infections, although contact tracing and testing were still underway.
Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan called on the national government to establish designated quarantine facilities after the latest leakage of the virus from hotel quarantine.
Trans-Tasman bubble protocols
As a response to Perth s three-day lockdown, travel between New Zealand and Western Australia has been paused.
A flight due to leave from Perth to New Zealand on Saturday night will not take off following Western Australia s decision.
New Zealanders in Western Australia are asked to follow the advice of Western Australian authorities until further notice.
COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says this is an example of the type of scenario both countries have planned for.
Man was infectious for five days
The 54-year-old arrived in Perth from Shanghai, China on April 3 and left hotel quarantine on April 17 after testing negative on day 12.
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