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WA yet to rule out another strict lockdown

West Australian contact tracers are working to ring fence any COVID-19 infection spread from a hotel quarantine security guard and two of his housemates. The Perth and Peel region is on standby for another lockdown, depending on health authorities’ risk assessment of infection spread through the community. Premier Mark McGowan says the guard in his… Read More »

Hospitals face ‘an explosion of Covid’ and signs of another surge as coronavirus case numbers climb

“In the last three weeks, I have seen more admissions and sicker patients than on the previous 10 weeks,” says Dr. Joseph Varon, the chief medical officer at United Memorial Medical Center. “It’s been an exponential increase on the severity of illness and on the number of cases that we admit.” In other hospitals across… Read More »