WA Premier Mark McGowan has extended restrictions on gatherings and a mask mandate into the new year over concerns some infected people may be delaying getting tested so they can party.
Western Australia has detected one new local COVID-19 case linked to an infected French backpacker who travelled from Queensland.
The new infection is a woman in her 20s, in quarantine since December 23, who was a close contact of the index case, a 25-year-old unvaccinated man."This is good news and another encouraging result from this Delta outbreak," Premier Mark McGowan told reporters on Monday. The premier praised health workers at testing sites who have worked in scorching temperatures over the Christmas period.
"Given the high-risk nature of some of the exposure sites, we were expecting to see large numbers of positive cases," he said."But so far, we have limited the spread and now are in reach of possibly being able to kill off this outbreak."
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