![]() “We are doing it in a way that is safe for parents, safe for teachers and safe for children, and we’ll be announcing those plans alongside the Victorian government shortly,” he said. In NSW, the premier, Dominic Perrottet, said the state’s healthcare system was equipped to cope with an expected spike in transmission that would result from a return to the classroom. Queensland has delayed the return of its school year by two weeks though New South Wales and Victoria are both planning to welcome students back in the coming weeks. “It is a matter for Western Australia and so we recognise that that’s a decision for the WA government.”Īustralia recorded 64 total Covid deaths on Saturday – 30 in New South Wales, 20 in Victoria, 10 in Queensland, three in South Australia and one in Tasmania.Ī day after Western Australia’s border announcement, Queensland effectively opened its international borders to travellers, who arrived for the first time without having to quarantine. That’s all been deferred,” Hunt said on Saturday. “We understand many families will be disappointed, their ability to meet loved ones, their ability to see beautiful young babies or to be present for weddings. ![]() In September he said Queensland’s policies that had separated families and denied entry to certain people were “a profound moral failure”. The federal health minister, Greg Hunt, said on Saturday that he sympathised with families kept apart by the extended WA state border closure, but stopped short of the sort of outright criticism previously levelled at states over hardline border policies.įederal ministers, including Hunt, have previously been outspoken about Western Australia and Queensland’s closed-border policies. In a strongly worded statement, Duncan-Smith called on the WA government to introduce modest restrictions, and to properly prepare the health system and schools for the pandemic. Even as we speak, the number of Omicron cases in the community is doubling every three days.” “In the other states, it all started with one case. We already have community spread,” said the president of the Australian Medical Association’s WA branch, Mark Duncan-Smith. Two of the new cases were acquired in the community without a known source the state’s health department has urged anyone in the Perth and Peel region experiencing symptoms to come forward for testing. While the WA numbers remain extremely low compared with states where the Omicron variant has spread, concerns are mounting that a more serious outbreak could still take hold despite the decision to keep the state border shut. This is our WA COVID-19 weekend update for Saturday, 22 January 2022.įor official information on COVID-19 in WA, visit /DBDvICC9Ai- Mark McGowan January 22, 2022
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