“This wasn’t a case of fleeting contact.”
Tuesday was a record testing day in WA with more than 18,000 swabs taken. It was also a record day for vaccinations, with more than 12,242 jabs provided.
On Sunday, nearly 8000 people were tested and on Monday nearly 15,000 people.
More than 300 close contacts and 2200 casual contacts – most found through the SafeWA app – have been identified as being linked to someone in the northern suburbs cluster.
Test results are pending for 105 close contacts and 1500 casual contacts.
The Bondi cluster seeded in WA on June 20 when a Mindarie woman aged in her 50s returned from a brief trip to Sydney having unknowingly contracted the virus from a stranger while at a cafe with her husband and son on June 19.
The physiotherapist’s initial COVID test the day after arriving home was negative, permitting her to leave home quarantine.
On June 25 – after three days in the community – she stayed home from work as she felt unwell. That same day, the cafe she dined at was listed as an exposure site by the New South Wales government, prompting her to isolate and get tested again the following day.
Her result was positive on Sunday, prompting thousands who had been at the same venues as her to come forward for testing.
A woman in her 30s who attended the same gym and a man in his 20s who dined near the Mindarie woman at a brewery both returned positive results on Monday, sparking a four-day snap lockdown as contact tracers raced to prevent any further spread of the highly infectious Delta strain.
On Wednesday, three additional cases were also recorded in returned travellers in hotel quarantine.
WA records one new local COVID-19 case linked to northern suburbs gym - WAtoday
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