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In today's COVID-19 Wrap, WA records its fourth day with no new locally acquired cases, State Disaster Council set to meet and the vaccine rollout on track for February.

Mark McGowan will need more than high iron ore prices, federal sugar-hits and COVID-stimulus packages if he wins re-election in March, writes Josh Adamson.

Opposition leader Zak Kirkup has demanded the state government reveal how it plans to ease the restrictions beyond tomorrow, saying the lack of clarity had caused chaos and confusion.

Western Australia’s five-day lockdown restrictions are on track to be eased at 6pm tomorrow after the state recorded no new locally acquired cases today.

WA’s five-day lockdown has won the endorsement of an academic whose modelling was instrumental to the state government’s much-lauded initial response to COVID-19.

Western Australia has not recorded any new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 for the fourth consecutive day, federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has revealed.

Labor is standing by calls to extend the JobKeeper scheme despite the Reserve Bank governor downplaying the need.

WA has quietly entered campaign mode for the March state election against a backdrop of empty streets and bushfire destruction.

The state president of the Australian Medical Association says he is disappointed by recent commentary regarding the transmission of the UK strain of COVID-19 at a Perth hotel.

In today's COVID-19 wrap, WA records its third day of no new locally-acquired cases, disease experts review their transmission theory and the Liberals slam the state's hotel quarantine system.

More of Western Australia’s recycling will be processed locally after the state and federal governments announced they would help fund nine recycling projects across WA.

The state’s disease experts are yet to determine how the hotel security guard at the centre of WA’s five-day lockdown contracted the virus.

Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe has restated his support for permanently increasing the rate of JobSeeker unemployment benefits.

For the third consecutive day, Western Australia has not recorded any new locally-acquired cases of COVID-19.

As the Perth, Peel and South West regions enter day three of the five-day lockdown, opposition leader Zak Kirkup has added to the Liberal Party's list of demands for the state government.

The federal government's JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme will come under the auditor-general's microscope.

Western Australia is likely to remain subject to COVID-19 restrictions beyond the five-day lockdown despite highly-encouraging test results.

Businesses struggling from coronavirus restrictions could be in line for targeted relief packages when wage subsidies are scrapped.

UPDATED: Elderly Australians have been given the medical regulator's okay to get the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine after concerns raised from overseas were allayed.

In today's COVID-19 wrap, Western Australia has recorded no new local cases of COVID-19, the WA Liberal Party demands a 24-hour testing clinic and businesses seek clarity on lockdown rules.

Western Australia has recorded no new local cases of COVID-19 overnight, according to Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt.

The WA Liberal Party has demanded the state government immediately establish a 24-hour COVID-19 testing clinic and stop frontline workers from holding second jobs.

A family-owned business in Canning Vale has been contracted to build up to 300 firefighting vehicles, as part of the state government’s bushfire response.

Western Australians will be required to sign in at retail venues, commercial transport services, and hospitals after an expansion of the COVID-19 contact register.

The Reserve Bank has left the cash rate and its other monetary policy rates unchanged after its first board meeting for 2021.

UPDATED: A hotel quarantine security guard who roamed the streets of Perth while infected with COVID-19 "did everything right", a Western Australian health chief says.

Andrew Miller has sounded a note of caution after WA recorded no new cases of COVID-19 overnight, arguing the result was not evidence of no community transmission.

Opposition leader Zak Kirkup has backed the state government’s decision to enter a five-day lockdown, hitting back at internet trolls in the process.

The EPA will undertake consultation this week to determine whether or not to assess the proposed Binduli North project in the state’s Goldfields.

Clive Palmer's Mineralogy and Woodside Petroleum were among the biggest political donors last year, having contributed a combined $6.2 million to federal parties.

The state has recorded no further local cases of COVID-19 overnight, as health authorities track down more than 100 close contacts of a hotel security guard that tested positive for the UK strain.

The NSW government has been the latest to place restrictions on travellers from Western Australia after Perth and the South West entered lockdown yesterday.