Coronavirus Australia update LIVE : Perth in lockdown after hotel outbreak, states impose restrictions, new clot cases

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LIVE: Parents and students from a primary school in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs have been forced into quarantine after they were exposed to a close contact of a positive coronavirus case.

West Coast will fly back to Perth this evening on a charter flight.

“The AFL will continue to be led by the advice of respective governments and public health officials with the health and safety of everyone in the game and the wider community remaining the priority.” WA Premier Mark McGowan appeared to be weighed down by the gravity of the latest lockdown on Friday afternoon.Health Minister Roger Cook defended the eight-day time gap before he and Premier Mark McGowan were notified by the CHO that the Mercure should be shut as a hotel for returned travellers and transitioned to a facility for low-risk arrivals such as seasonal farm workers from countries without the virus.

 

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Is there a communication breakdown somewhere here. I bet the close contact was notified well after the postive case.,but also most of the close contacts don't follow DHHS recommendations anyways, they think there above the law in that regard.

Cough cough Bullshit

Hey paulbentleymelb is this because DHHS cant get passenger manifests in time, even after 12 months? You are a journalist, here is a story for you.

When the say when you grow up there will be jobs you never expected. “Contract Tracing” has to be one of the newest jobs created in the last few years. E have contract tracing in two states going on.

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