The pneumonia (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) Epidemic in Wuhan is raging, the largest city in western Australia, Perth (Perth) maintained a 10-month record of zero local diagnosis recently broken, the local government today (31) announced a five-day closure of the city.
According to Reuters, a traveler who returned to Australia from abroad infected a guard during quarantine at a vaccination hotel, which led to suspicions of infection in the community and broke the 10-month-long record of zero confirmed local cases in Perth. Local officials today announced a five-day closure of the city, people can only go out for medical appointments, essential work or Food purchases, and several businesses were asked to temporarily open for business, hospital visits, weddings and other activities are also prohibited.
In addition to Perth, residents of the neighboring city of Peel and the southwest region of Western Australia are also asked to stay Home from this evening. Western Australia’s Premier Mark McGowan has said that it is “better to have a long pain than a short one” and that the city-wide lockdown is a “drastic” measure to effectively control the epidemic and prevent it from expanding further, as it has in other countries.
According to Google statistics, there are currently 28,811 confirmed cases in Australia and 909 people have died of the disease.
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