Western Australia Covid update as at 19 October 2021

WA Health is reporting no new cases of COVID-19 overnight.

The State’s total remains at 1112. To date, 1100 people have recovered from the virus in WA.

As of last night, WA Health was monitoring three active COVID-19 cases, including two people who are in hotel quarantine and one in Fiona Stanley Hospital from the vessel MV Stolt Sakura.

WA Health continues to monitor the situation in Tasmania after a man in his 30s, who breached quarantine, tested positive for COVID-19.

Western Australians who have been at a listed venue at the specified times needs to self-quarantine for 14 days and be tested within 48 hours and at day 12.

Testing clinics

Yesterday, 386 people were swabbed at State-run clinics. To date, there have been 1,830,450 COVID-19 tests performed in WA. Of those, 212,691 were in regional WA.

A list of all testing clinics is available on the HealthyWA website.

COVID-19 vaccinations*

Yesterday, 21,043 COVID-19 vaccine doses were recorded in WA – 11,355 of these were second doses. The total includes 5441 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)**.

An Aboriginal Family Day will be held at the Armadale clinic on Saturday, October 23, where all Aboriginal people aged 12 years and above will be welcomed to the clinic with a Welcome to Country, food and other activities provided. Aboriginal people can attend from 10am to 4.30pm.

Vaccination information:

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