WA Health is reporting no new cases of COVID-19 overnight.
The State’s total stands at 1110. To date, 1086 people have recovered from the virus in WA.
As of 8pm last night, WA Health was monitoring 15 active COVID-19 cases, including five people who are in hotel quarantine, five in Fiona Stanley Hospital from the vessel, MV Stolt Sakura, and five aboard the Sakura.
Returned diplomat
The returned diplomat and family remain in hotel quarantine.
Contact tracing has identified 50 close and casual contacts. So far, 47 have tested negative to COVID-19, one family member has tested positive and two results are pending.
All contacts (other than the family members) remain in self-quarantine for 14 days and will be managed by WA Health public health officials.
Vessel update
Of the five hospitalised MV Stolt Sakura crew members, two remain in ICU in a serious but stable condition.
The other three crew members are being managed on a respiratory ward and are in a stable condition. This morning, one seafarer has been discharged to hotel quarantine.
At this stage it is expected that the other crew members will remain in isolation or quarantine on board the vessel unless they need to be transferred for medical treatment. WA Health will continue to work with the vessel and key maritime stakeholders regarding its ongoing management.
Repeat COVID testing overnight on the 10 crew members who were not cases have all returned negative results.
Adelaide
WA Health has contacted Western Australian travellers from Virgin flight VA722 from Adelaide to Perth at 18:00 hours on Friday 1 October following Adelaide Airport being listed as an exposure site.
They have been instructed to get tested and isolate until they return a negative result.
This is in relation to a person who travelled from Victoria to South Australia, arriving at 17:25 hours in Adelaide on Friday 1 October, who returned a positive COVID-19 test.
To date, all casual contacts who are still in WA have returned a negative result with 17 results pending.
Anyone who has been to an exposure location listed on the SA website (external site) should quarantine until they have been advised otherwise by Public Health.
Testing clinics
Yesterday, 522 people were swabbed at State-run clinics. To date, there have been 1,788,405 COVID-19 tests performed in WA. Of those, 208,841 are from regional WA.
A list of all testing clinics is available on the HealthyWA website.
COVID-19 vaccinations*
Since vaccination numbers were reported yesterday, 26,530 COVID-19 vaccine doses were recorded in WA – 12,101 of these were second doses. The total includes 5,245 historic COVID-19 vaccine doses*. These figures represent COVID-19 vaccinations at State-run clinics and doses given as part of the Commonwealth rollout**.
