26 April 2021 10:04am
Perth is the latest Australian city to head into a snap lockdown aimed at stamping out a COVID-19 cluster resulting from another breach in CBD hotel quarantine.
The three-day lockdown, covering Perth and the Peel region south of the city, comes in response to news a 54-year-old Victorian man, a returned overseas traveller, evidently contracted COVID-19 from guests in an adjoining room.
After leaving quarantine he then visited several locations around the city in Perth’s first case of community transmission in more than a year. On 21 April, he then boarded a plane to Melbourne with 257 passengers and subsequently tested positive following 14 days in hotel quarantine in Perth and five days in the community.
AMA, experts attack government failure to accept airborne spread
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Leading infection-control experts say they are frustrated and angry about a federal government panelâs reluctance to accept the dangers of airborne spread of COVID-19, warning it is putting frontline workers and the community at risk.
A controversial recommendation from the Australian governmentâs Infection Control Expert Group (ICEG) allows surgical masks with protective eyewear to be used in the routine care of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, and those in quarantine, rather than fitted N95 masks.
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In total, two cases of community transmission have been recorded, in addition to the original case which sent Perth and the Peel region into lockdown on Friday.
Western Australia (WA) Premier Mark McGowan said the latest community case had visited the same restaurant as the original case. They are now in hotel quarantine.
One new overseas case has been recorded in hotel quarantine, a resident returning from India.
Western Australia (WA) Premier Mark McGowan said he wanted to see more testing completed, and that it was too early to predict what will happen on Tuesday , when the lockdown is due to end.
NSW has recorded no new cases of COVID despite traces being found in sewage
NSW Health issued an alert for two NSW suburbs after COVID fragments found
Fragments found at Allambie Heights in Sydney and Merimbula on South Coast
On Sunday fragments were detected in Burwood Beach Sewage Treatment Plant
The catchment serves nearly a quarter of a million residents across Newcastle