Western Australia ‘Backpacker Outbreak’ Another case reported as Covid tally hits fourteen – but a desperate search is underway for missing backpackers who may have ‘avoided testing’.
- Western Australia’s backpacker cluster grows with Perth dance party It is done
- A new case from that outbreak was a close contact of another recent infection
- WA from New Year’s Eve treating Queensland, South Australia as ‘high risk’
Western Australia has detected a new local COVID case linked to an infected French backpacker who traveled queensland,
The new case is a close contact of another recent infection and is in hotel quarantine, WA Health said on Friday.
The latest diagnosis takes the total number of cases linked to the so-called ‘backpacker outbreak’ to 14, and includes the original, unvaccinated 25-year-old French tourist.
many cases got busy Perth Mess hall dance party on 19 December with about 400 others, many of whom were passengers.
Many of the cases went to the busy Perth mess hall dance party on 19 December with about 400 others, many of them from the traveler community.
More than 700 close contacts have been identified, 24 of whom are yet to be tested, as police struggle to track down some backpackers who are believed to have left WA or escaped testing. are.
Four infections have also been reported among the returned passengers and they have also been quarantined.
Premier Mark McGowan announced on Thursday that new national definitions for close contacts, and recommendations for isolation periods and testing, would not apply until WA opened its borders on February 5.
WA has tightened border rules again for travelers from Queensland and South Australia due to rising cases in both states.
On New Year’s Eve, starting at 6 p.m. local time, visitors from those states, along with New South Wales and Victoria, will be considered ‘high risk’.
Travelers will not be allowed in WA except for Commonwealth and State officials, Members of Parliament, diplomats and those in specialist roles.
A Belgian backpacker was arrested this week for allegedly escaping from a hotel quarantine after he was believed to be in close contact with an unvaccinated French tourist. He was living at the now-secluded Old Fire Station Backpackers (pictured) in Fremantle, where about 100 people had recently been evacuated and told to isolate.
WA has tightened border rules again for travelers from Queensland and South Australia due to rising cases in both states. On New Year’s Eve, starting at 6 p.m. local time, visitors from those states, along with New South Wales and Victoria, will be considered ‘high risk’.
A Belgian backpacker was arrested this week for allegedly escaping from a hotel quarantine after he was believed to be in close contact with an unvaccinated French tourist.
Zachary Gamari, 25, was taken to a hotel in Perth’s city center on Friday after he was informed by the WA Health Department that he had been exposed to COVID-19.
He was living at the now-secluded Old Fire Station Backpackers in Fremantle, where about 100 people had recently been evacuated and told to self-isolate.
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