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Five day lockdown update
Following the advice from the Premier and Chief Health Officer this afternoon, the following City of Swan facilities and services will be closed as part of the WA Government five day lockdown:
Skate parks, BMX parks, playgrounds and outdoor gym equipment.
Libraries.
Swan Active Midland, Beechboro and Ballajura, Ellenbrook Sports Hub, indoor and outdoor sporting facilities, bookable halls and venues.
The City’s youth centres, including Ellenbrook’s Cool Room and Bullsbrook’s Bullseye.
Recyclable Goods Drop-off Days.
Midland Junction Arts Centre.
Ellenbrook Arts.
We encourage our community to follow the State Government advice and stay home, except for the four following reasons.
An urgent alert has been issued for 15 venues in Perth after they were visited by a security guard working at a quarantine hotel who tested positive to Covid.
The city, along with the Peel region and Western Australia s South West, will enter a harsh five-day lockdown from 6pm on Sunday after the man in his 20s returned the positive result.
Residents who visited any of the 15 locations, including a Coles supermarket, a KFC and a 7-Eleven at specific dates and times have been told to get tested immediately and self-isolate until they receive a negative result.
The venues are spread across the suburbs of Maylands, Midland, Morley, Cloverdale, Burswood, North Perth, Perth and Nedlands.
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It was the news no one wanted to hear on a Sunday afternoon, but from 6pm most West Australians will go back into full lockdown after 10 months of no COVID-19 community spread.
The announcement by Premier Mark McGowan comes after a quarantine hotel security guard tasked with watching a floor of returned overseas travellers tested positive for the virus on the weekend.
Police Commissioner Chris Dawson, Chief Health Officer Dr Andrew Robertson and Premier Mark McGowan.
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Authorities suspect the man, aged in his 20s, could have contracted the highly contagious UK strain of the virus, which has been wreaking havoc across Europe, on Tuesday or Wednesday.