PERTH: Australian authorities ordered a snap three-day lockdown in the western city of Perth on Friday after the coronavirus escaped from a quarantine hotel housing international travellers infected with COVID-19.
Western Australia state Premier Mark McGowan said a man who was allowed to leave the hotel on Apr 17 after testing negative for the virus at the end of the standard 14-day quarantine period tested positive several days later.One of his close contacts in Perth tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday in the first case of community transmission of the disease in the state in 12 months, prompting the lockdown order, McGowan said.
Authorities are tracking other people who came into contact with the man during five days he spent in Perth before flying to Melbourne, on Australia's south-east coast, where he tested positive on Wednesday and was put into isolation. Australia has been among the world's most successful countries in containing the COVID-19 pandemic, with fewer than 30,000 cases and just over 900 deaths for a population of 25 million.
The few instances of community transmission in recent months have been linked to hotel quarantine in major cities, and all the outbreaks have been successfully contained with similar brief lockdowns.
That strain from that country really sly virus , hide here hide there when quarantine , reappears after quarantine ..... Singapore also kena a few similiar cases
While its from India yet again. Good thing Sing is locking them down! 👍👍👍
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