WA Premier Mark McGowan says a very weak positive case has been detected in a FIFO worker, who may have been infectious in the community in Perth.
There are concerns he could have been infectious while in the communityThe worker was at the airport at the same time as a positive Queensland case, and spent a week on the FMG Cloudbreak mine.
"There is some confusion, we don't know if he is actually a shedder of the virus now, although that is unlikely. "What we are doing is compiling a list of potential sites where he has been, which we will publish as soon as we can," he said "This chap has been infected by the disease on a previous occasion, and the suspicion is that if he did acquire the virus again then there is a possibility he wasn't infectious at all," Mr Cook said."He has three very close contacts in relation to work, one of those has been tested and is also negative."
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