09 March 2021
COVID-19 update 9 March 2021
The Department of Health has reported one new case of COVID-19 overnight.
The State’s total number of confirmed cases now stands at 920.
The case is a male in his 30s who has returned from overseas travel and is currently in hotel quarantine.
WA Health is monitoring eight active cases of COVID-19 and 903 people have recovered from the virus in WA.
Yesterday 1449 people were vaccinated. To date, 9,289 West Australians have received the COVID vaccine.
Yesterday at WA Health COVID clinics 522 people presented for testing – 515 were assessed and swabbed.
To date, 26 cases of variant strains have been detected in Western Australia (18 B.1.1.7 of the strain and 8 of the B.1.351 strain).
There have been 889,786 COVID-19 tests performed in WA. Of those, 130,955 were from regional WA.
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Note: The cases of variant strains reported above are not new cases. Genome sequencing – to define the strain of the virus – is a separate laboratory process carried out after someone tests positive to COVID-19. All cases, regardless of strain, are managed by WA’s public health experts. The strains previously reported as the UK variant strain and South African variant strain will now be referred to as B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 respectively.