13 August 2020

COVID-19 update – 13 August 2020

The Department of Health has reported two new cases of COVID-19 in Western Australia overnight.

The new confirmed cases – a woman in her 50s and a man in his 30s – are both returned overseas travellers in hotel quarantine.

WA now has three active COVID-19 cases – two are Western Australians and one is from interstate. The State’s total is 644.

To date, 632 confirmed cases have recovered from the virus in WA.

Yesterday 766 people presented to WA COVID-19 clinics – 730 were assessed and 725 were swabbed.

There have been 283,004 COVID-19 tests performed in WA. Of those tested, 47,307 were from regional WA.

Visit WA Health’s HealthyWA website (external site) for the latest information on COVID-19.

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