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Rockingham and Kwinana exposure sites as household contact of hotel worker
tests positive to COVID
Western
Australia has recorded one new native case of COVID-19 overnight, a social unit
contact of a building watcher who tested positive for the virus on Wednesday.
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second hotel employee to become infected in recent days
once a Pan Pacific worker tested positive to the alphabetic
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variant on Sunday.
New
potential COVID-19 exposure sites in Rockingham, Kwinana, Cowaramup, Leda,
Cottesloe, tree and Cannington were known on Thursday afternoon.
The Western
Australian Health Service also confirmed through genome sequencing that another
Pan Pacific Hotel security officer had contracted the virus from a foreign
expatriate. They were isolated in a room
on the same floor where the guards were stationed.wa exposure sites latest.
So far, 15
of his closest contacts have tested negative and are in solitary confinement.
The
condition of the two guards was revealed through their hotel's daily
surveillance system. wa exposure sites abc.
It was not
clear which virus was transmitted to the second guard. His family contacts are
isolated and his close contacts are investigated. wa exposure sites list.
There are no
new suitcases from the Delta Backpacker collection and there are 21 more. Of
the 856 closely related contacts connected to the cluster, 30 remain to be
tested.
Infections
continued to increase with arrivals in each state in the quarantine zone, with
6 more cases reported overnight, including two from Victoria, one from
Queensland, one from New South Wales and one from Tasmania. 1 The question has
arrived. The northern area.
These new
cases bring the total number of active cases in the state to 74.
Since the
Omicron version surfaced in December, 43 cases of the strain have been detected
in WA, 42 of them in hotels or in home quarantine.
Western
Australia's vaccine leader Chris Dawson said he is unsure whether the state
will reach its February 5 reopening date before the highly infectious version
hits the community.
The two
international crew members also tested positive, but they must meet strict
quarantine requirements when calling Perth.