COVID-19 update – 06 January 2021

The Department of Health has today reported three new cases of COVID-19 in Western Australia, bringing the State’s total to 872.

The new cases are all overseas returned travellers and include two females and one male, aged between 13 and 86.

Two of the new cases are in hotel quarantine. The third is in hospital, in a stable condition.

WA Health is monitoring 18 active cases and 845 people have recovered from the virus in WA.

There have been 644,726 COVID-19 tests performed in WA. Of those tested, 102,719 were from regional WA.

Yesterday 1,456 people presented to WA Health-managed COVID clinics – 1,436 were assessed and 1,434 were swabbed.

Visit WA Health’s HealthyWA website for the latest information on COVID-19.