No lockdown as COVID case detected in Perth from FIFO worker, exposure sites released
WA Premier Mark McGowan says a very weak positive case has been detected in a FIFO worker, who may have been infectious in the community in Perth. Key points: The FIFO worker was tested and returned a "weak positive" result The FIFO worker was tested and returned a "weak positive" result There are fears he may have been infectious in the community There are fears he may have been infectious in the community Anyone who visited exposure sites should get tested and isolate The worker was at the airport at the same time as a positive Queensland case, and spent a week on the FMG Cloudbreak mine. "He has recently been tested, the test results were very, very weak, tested positive then he tested negative," Mr McGowan said. "But because he did have those weak positive results and because he was at one of those exposure sites that the Queensland case was at, we think this in an appropriate course of action. "Contact tracing is … maybe a bit quicker for us because we have all the flight manifests, we know exactly who was on site, who was sleeping in a bed that night," Ms Gaines said.
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