WA Health has reported no new cases of COVID-19 overnight.
The State’s total remains at 1,036.
WA Health is now monitoring nine active COVID-19 cases.
Three of these cases are linked to the Perth northern suburbs cluster, four are in hotel quarantine and two are in a stable condition in Perth hospitals.
The one close contact, who remains in quarantine, and 55 casual contacts identified in Geraldton and linked to the seafarer’s case, have all now received a negative COVID-19 test result. Additional testing for these contacts will be conducted over the following days.
To date, 1,018 people have recovered from the virus in WA.
Testing clinics
Yesterday, 1,104 people were swabbed at State-run clinics.
To date there have been 1,440,807 COVID-19 tests performed in WA. Of those, 175,437 were from regional WA.
A list of testing clinics is available on the HealthyWA website.
Vaccination
For the latest WA vaccination figures, visit the COVID-19 Coronavirus: Vaccination dashboard (external site).*
Yesterday, 12,171 people received a COVID-19 vaccination – 6,690 of those were second doses.
Travel advice for Victoria and South Australia
WA Health issued updated advice for travellers who have recently returned from Victoria and South Australia after public health alerts were issued for both states on Monday.
Anyone who has visited exposure sites (external site) in Victoria or exposure sites (external site) in South Australia are required to be tested within 48 hours, quarantine for 14 days and get tested again at day 11.
Tasmania
WA Health has issued advice for travellers who have recently returned from Tasmania, after a public health alert was issued for parts of that state last week.
The Tasmanian Department of Health has released a list of sites (external site) that were visited by a person who tested positive for COVID-19 two days after they left the state and arrived in London.
While the risk to the Western Australian community is considered to be extremely low, anyone who has recently arrived into WA from Tasmania and has been to one of the exposure sites during the relevant times is required to get tested within 48 hours and then present for 11-day testing.
Border controls
Information about border controls (external site) is available online.
Variants
To date, 105 cases of variant strains have been detected in Western Australia – 53 Alpha strain, 15 Beta strain, one Gamma strain and 36 Delta strain.
Visit WA Health’s HealthyWA website for the latest information on COVID-19.
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Notes: *WA vaccination data for the WA COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard is sourced from the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR). AIR is a national register maintained by the Australian Government that records all vaccines given to all people in Australia. WA data includes all COVID-19 vaccinations in WA, whether administered by WA Health, Australian Government providers or other providers (including GPs). WA previously reported only WA Health data. Note that the dashboard does not update until after 2.00pm Monday to Friday. A vaccine dashboard data interpretation guide (external site) is also available to help you.