The Department of Health has reported one new active case of COVID-19 overnight, bringing the State’s total to 592.
The new case is a male in his 30s who returned from overseas travel and is in hotel quarantine.
There are currently 26 active cases in WA. Of the active cases, five are Western Australians, one is from interstate and twenty are crew members from the Al Kuwait.
One confirmed COVID-19 case is in a Perth metropolitan hospital.
To date, 557 people have recovered from the virus in WA, following the recovery of four cases overnight.
Yesterday 1,311 people presented to WA COVID-19 clinics; of these 1,236 were assessed and 1,225 were swabbed as a result of the assessment.
More than 890 asymptomatic people were also tested yesterday through the DETECT Snapshot program.
To date there have been 97,912 COVID-19 tests performed in WA. Of those tested, 16,682 were from regional WA.
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