Western Australia has recorded two new Covid-19 infections after a European traveller tested positive in Perth.
He arrived in WA from Queensland on December 12 – only one hour before border restrictions were tightened.
“Both cases are linked to Case 1,133, the man who arrived in Perth from QLD on Sunday, 12 December,” he tweeted. , health authorities upgraded the contact status for a Perth Mess Hall event on December 19, where about 400 people attended.
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