WA Health is reporting no new cases of COVID-19 overnight.
The State’s total remains at 1112. To date, 1099 people have recovered from the virus in WA.
As of last night, WA Health was monitoring four active COVID-19 cases, including three people who are in hotel quarantine and one in Fiona Stanley Hospital from the vessel MV Stolt Sakura.
Truck driver
All contacts of the truck driver who tested positive to COVID-19 on October 5 have now had final testing, and all have returned a negative result. As of today (October 17), all close contacts will have completed 14 days of self-quarantine.
A list of exposure site (external site) and corresponding public health advice is published on the HealthyWA website. Anyone with concerns can contact 13 COVID (13 26843).
Returned diplomat
The returned diplomat and family remain in a quarantine facility. All other contacts have now had final testing, and all have returned a negative result. As of today (October 17), all close contacts will have completed 14 days of self-quarantine.
Testing clinics
Yesterday, 464 people were swabbed at State-run clinics. To date, there have been 1,818,670 COVID-19 tests performed in WA. Of those, 211,712 were in regional WA.
A list of all testing clinics is available on the HealthyWA website.
COVID-19 vaccinations*
On Friday, 26,519 COVID-19 vaccine doses were recorded in WA –14,470 of these were second doses. The total includes 5577 historic COVID-19 vaccine doses*. These figures represent COVID-19 vaccinations at State-run clinics and doses given as part of the Commonwealth rollout**.
For the latest WA vaccination figures, visit the COVID-19 Coronavirus: Vaccination dashboard (external site)**.
Vaccination information:
- New and expanded COVID-19 vaccination clinics are opening across Perth including a new clinic at Perth Airport for FIFO workers.
- Walk-in appointments are available for everyone aged 12 years and over at the Claremont and Joondalup COVID-19 vaccination community clinics.
- Walk-in community clinics are available for young people aged 16 years and over (year 11 and 12) and school staff (external site).
- Western Australian children aged 12 to 15 years are eligible for a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination (external site). Parents and guardians are encouraged to visit rollup.wa.gov.au (external site) to register and book appointments for their children in this age group.
