Eight more crew members of a bulk carrier anchored off Port Hedland in Western Australia have tested positive to COVID-19, taking the total number of cases from the ship to 17.
The eight new cases are all in quarantine at the Hedland Hotel, along with two others who had already been confirmed as testing positive.
Twenty Filipino nationals and the captain were on board the Patricia Oldendorff when the ship anchored nine nautical miles off the coast on 16 September. "The Department of Health, together with the WA Country Health Service, would like to reassure the Port Hedland community that every safety measure is being put in place to protect the local community," the statement said.
WA's official figures, updated prior to the new ship cases being reported, had the state's total at 676 cases with 14 active cases being monitored.
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