The Christmas Covid Scare – And Then There Were None!

WA Health has reported this morning that there were no new local COVID-19 cases overnight, and 3 new cases not linked with the current outbreak and all are in quarantine.

The 3 new cases are all returned travellers – a 13-year-old boy and a 33-year-old woman linked with overseas travel and a 27-year-old returning from interstate.

There are now 23 active confirmed cases in WA.

WA Health has now identified 655 close contacts with 46 yet to be tested and 1109 casual contacts with 243 yet to be tested*.

WA Health’s contact tracing team is working to identify and follow up contacts and confirm exposure sites. See below information for exposure sites.

The State’s total stands at 1148, with 1116 people recovered.

FYI here are the current exposure sites.