Another quarantine failure plunges Perth into lockdown

Sunday 31 January 2021

Yesterday afternoon WA Premier Mark McGowan announced that greater metropolitan Perth, the Peel region, and the south west regions would all go into a five-day lockdown as of 6pm Sunday.

This came after a male hotel quarantine worker in Perth tested positive to the UK strain of COVID-19.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.