WA enters uneasy 'holding pattern' as contact tracers race the clock

"I want to avoid going into lockdown again," Mr McGowan said on Sunday.

More than a dozen sites are linked to the new cases, including the Swan Taxi office building in Vic Park, Brookside Medical Centre in Wanneroo, a Caltex service station in Scarborough, and a cinema at the Galleria Shopping Centre in Morley.Additionally, the Premier announced that one of the positive cases attended a cooking class at the Perth College of Business and Technology in East Perth, on April 27 and 28.On Sunday 156 contacts were announced in relation to the new cluster.

Mr McGowan said reviews of CCTV footage at the hotel didn't show any causes for concern, and announced it still wasn't known how case 1001 became infected.

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