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.
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.
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.
A Perth startup led by three tech veterans is planning to manufacture and export a new high-speed COVID testing machine after getting backing from the state government.
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.
Western Australians have completed their first night of lockdown, triggered after a hotel quarantine security guard attended more than a dozen venues while infected with COVID-19.
Customers will have to check-in at the supermarket and takeaway outlets from February 12 after the state government expanded the mandatory contact tracing rules.
Construction has officially begun on Brightwater Care Group's new 128-bed residential aged care facility in Inglewood, with the facility expected to open next year.
The royal commission and the pandemic have not stemmed the pipeline of aged care developments but they could have a lasting impact on how care is delivered.
Australia has put a stop to the New Zealand travel bubble for 72 hours after a South African variant of COVID-19 was detected in a woman after 14 days of isolation.
Western Australia will reopen its borders to NSW and Queensland from Monday but travellers will still be required to self-isolate for 14 days and get a COVID-19 test.
Western Australia's government has promised better transparency after it was not disclosed that several recovered COVID-19 cases were linked to the highly contagious British strain.
The head of Australia's health department believes it is unlikely international borders will substantially reopen this year, even if most people are vaccinated against coronavirus.
Opposition leader Zak Kirkup has called on the state's chief health officer to front the media ahead of the roll out of the Pfizer vaccine in February.
