Premier Mark McGowan has assured WA residents the risk of a large monkeypox outbreak is low as researchers predict a further drop in COVID cases.
"I'd expect that each state will get a proportion probably based upon their population … I haven't received that advice as of yet."
"We shouldn't be necessarily worried about this … we ask people to isolate, and that's enough to prevent their chances of onward transmission," he told ABC Radio Perth. Researchers from the Telethon Kids Institute generated a simulation tool for mapping COVID outbreaks and said it projected WA's case numbers would continue to fall."The daily case numbers here in WA have been coming down steadily over the past fortnight … our model forecasts that that trend will continue through to the end of August," Dr Ewan Cameron told ABC Radio Perth.
"We think that, at least with BA.4 and BA.5 variants, they're not going to give us much more of a kick beyond what they already have over the past few weeks."
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