“This is an example of the type of scenario both countries have planned for.” “All passengers on an earlier flight from Perth to Melbourne that carried a passenger later found to have COVID-19 have been contact traced and no-one on that flight has travelled on to New Zealand. “A flight due to leave Perth for New Zealand later tonight will not take off following Western Australia’s decision, and any New Zealanders affected are asked to follow the advice of Western Australian authorities. “New Zealand health officials are in contact with their Australian counterparts and are completing a risk assessment,” he said in a statement. New Zealand Health Minister Chris Hipkins said travel was paused, pending further advice, as set out in Trans-Tasman bubble protocols. Thank you for joining us – stay safe, stay at home (unless you’ve got a valid reason to leave), and wear a mask!Īn Air New Zealand flight scheduled to leave from Perth on Friday evening will no longer take off. See the post pinned to the top of the blog for the latest exposure locations released by the state government. He has since travelled to Melbourne, where he went into isolation and subsequently tested positive to the virus, but there are concerns he was active in the Perth community for five days from April 17.Ī woman he stayed with after leaving hotel quarantine has also tested positive to the virus, the locations she recently visited are currently being investigated by authorities. We’ll be back tomorrow to bring you the latest on the lockdown for Perth and the Peel region, sparked after the coronavirus managed to escape hotel quarantine.Īs of 6pm, all residents in the regions under lockdown will be required to wear masks, while stricter lockdown conditions come into effect as of midnight tonight.Ĭentral to the government’s concerns are locations visited by a Victorian man who contracted COVID-19 while completing his mandatory two weeks quarantine in the Mercure Hotel, Perth. This is our last post for the evening, thank you for joining our live coverage.
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