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:
Mandatory vaccinations apply to the following workers based on the latest public health advice. Further details are available online.
Directions are being drafted to make vaccinations mandatory for Primary and community health workers.
Border controls
Information about border controls is available online.
Variants
To date, 173 cases of variant strains have been detected in Western Australia – including 53 Alpha strain, 15 Beta strain, one Gamma strain and 104 Delta strain. Visit WA Health’s HealthyWA website for the latest information on COVID-19.
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* Cumulative testing and daily vaccination data will be reported on Monday, 18 October 2021.
** WA vaccination data for the WA COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard is sourced from the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR). AIR is a national register maintained by the Australian Government that records all vaccines given to all people in Australia. WA data includes all COVID-19 vaccinations in WA, whether administered by WA Health, Australian Government providers or other providers (including GPs). WA previously reported only WA Health data. Note that the dashboard does not update until after 2pm Monday to Friday. A vaccine dashboard data interpretation guide (external site) is also available to help you.