Perth and Peel have entered a full four-day lockdown from midnight after a third COVID-19 case was recorded in the area.
The lockdown comes after WA Premier Mark McGowan confirmed that the original case in the outbreak — case 1022 — has the Delta variant of the virus.
The new case — case 1024 — is a man in his 30s who worked at the Indian Ocean Brewery and also ate there last Tuesday, the same night as case 1022.
There are now three cases in Western Australia as part of the new outbreak.
Mr McGowan said he hoped the lockdown would be a “circuit breaker” needed for testing and contact tracers to get on top of the outbreak.
Masks will be mandatory in Perth and Peel unless you are at home, doing outdoor exercise or are in a vehicle with members of your own household.There will be a regional boundary around Perth and Peel and the only reasons to leave your home, emergency situations aside, will be:- For work if you are an essential worker or service provider.- For purchasing essential goods including food, groceries, medical or necessary supplies within five kilometres of your home.- For one hour of outdoor exercise per day within 5km of your home with up to one other adult from your household.- For medical or health care purposes, including looking after the vulnerable or to be vaccinated.
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Schools and childcare facilities will remain open, but private gatherings are not permitted – visitors at home are only permitted for essential services, critical maintenance or care-giving.Hospitality venues are restricted to takeaway only and non-essential retail is restricted to click-and-collect or delivery.The following must close:- Beauty salons and hairdressers- Fitness and recreational venues- Casinos, nightclubs and entertainment venues- Playgrounds, skate parks and outdoor recreational facilities- Higher education- Religious gatherings and places of worship- Community sport is cancelled- Public events are not permittedVisits to aged care and disability care are prohibited, except for essential care and compassionate reasons. Visits to hospitals are prohibited except for compassionate reasons.
We must ‘crush and kill it’
Mr McGowan said the Delta variant was “a new beast we can’t take any chances with” and the fact that the virus had spread with such fleeting contact contributed to the need for the snap lockdown.”You can acquire it just by sitting at a table in a restaurant near someone else you don’t know, and that’s what’s occurred here,” he said.”So obviously we don’t know if there’s further cases out there.”What we’re doing is a massive effort in testing, a huge effort in contact tracing and engaging in a lockdown to try and kill it as quickly as we can.”Sydney is going through a two-week, probably more lockdown.”We’re hopeful a four-day lockdown and all of the measures we’re putting in place will be enough to crush and kill the virus in its tracks.”Mr McGowan said he knew it was very disappointing but said “we could take comfort in the fact we have acted quickly”.He said it was time to prove to Australia “and the world what can be achieved when the community comes together”.
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