Western Australia coronovirus update as at 2 March 2021

The Department of Health has reported no new cases of COVID-19 overnight.

The State’s total number of confirmed cases stands at 913.

WA Health is monitoring three active cases of COVID-19 and 901 people have recovered from the virus in WA.

There have been 2862 West Australians who have received their first dose of the vaccine since the COVID-19 vaccination program began last week.

Yesterday at WA Health COVID clinics 385 people presented for testing – 381 were assessed and swabbed.

To date, 25 cases of variant strains have been detected in Western Australia (17 B.1.1.7 of the strain and 8 or the B.1.351 strain).

There have been 870,745 COVID-19 tests performed in WA. Of those, 128136 were from regional WA.

Visit WA Health’s HealthyWA website for the latest information on COVID-19.

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