Breaking Western Australia will halve its international arrivals cap and tighten the New South Wales border after recording its first known Omicron cases in hotel quarantine.
The daily infection rate in NSW has surged to 1360 amid warnings the state could have 25,000 cases per day by the end of next month.
"The situation in NSW is very concerning and the cases have rapidly risen in the past few days so we need to do everything we can to keep Western Australia safe, while we get WA's vaccination rate up to 90 per cent and remain free of COVID in the community," he said.WA is due to reopen its borders on 5 February but the government has vowed it will take harsh measures in the meantime to keep the virus out.
The first two men, aged in their 30s and both fully vaccinated, entered WA together on December 9 after returning negative rapid antigen tests at the SA border.
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