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Perth residents are urged to frequently check the growing list of COVID-19 hotspots visited by known cases and get tested if they have been there, as no new locally-acquired coronavirus cases were recorded overnight.
Premier Mark McGowan announced the zero result on Sunday afternoon – day two of the three-day lockdown in the metropolitan area and neighbouring Peel region – after multiple venues including a Woolworths, service stations and a kindergarten were added to the hotspot list.
The update comes after a man in his 40s contracted the virus at the Kitchen Inn in Kardinya – where the Victorian man whose positive result sparked the lockdown dined last weekend.
Mr McGowan said the case was “obviously very concerningâ€.
He said the man had been tested immediately, was working closely with the health department’s contact tracing team to determine public exposure sites and was in hotel quarantine.
“We wish him a speedy recovery,†the Labor leader said.
Authorities believe the Victorian man unwittingly contracted the virus while in quarantine at the Mercure Hotel in the Perth CBD, where he stayed in a room opposite an ill couple who had arrived from India, then spent five days in the community.
There, he infected a female dental clinic employee – Western Australia’s first case of local transmission in more than a year.
The Victorian man had stayed at the woman’s Kardinya home for one night before moving to Saint Catherine’s College at the University of Western Australia.
The woman’s workplace, DB Dental on Canning Highway in Applecross, has been added to the list of public exposure sites visited by the pair since he was released from quarantine on April 17.
The woman, aged in her 40s, unwittingly worked at the clinic from 8am to 6pm on Thursday while infectious.
Her two children have so far tested negative for the virus.
Mr McGowan said health authorities had identified 359 close and casual contacts of the confirmed cases.
Of 303 close contacts, 72 had returned a negative result, as had 13 of 56 casual contacts.
“More contacts will likely be identified today and they will be notified and directed to be tested,†the Premier said.
“We need close contacts and casual contacts – that is, anyone who has visited the exposure locations during the specific times – to be tested.
“So please keep doing the right thing.â€
WA recorded one additional case overnight, a resident who returned from India and is in hotel quarantine.
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