![]() This is why we are reviewing the systems inside the hotel to determine what happened here to see if there is anything more we can do to keep the hotel secure.” ‘Cracks in the system’ We will look at the second job but we can’t stop people living a life. “We can’t lock people up who work in hotel quarantine. The worker has the highly contagious UK strain of the virus and could have been carrying it around Perth for five days before he tested positive at the weekend and went into quarantine. The government launched a formal review to be led by former WA chief health officer Tarun Weeramanthri. Mr McGowan put Perth and the South West region of the state into lockdown at 6pm on Sunday after a hotel security worker tested positive on January 30. Unfortunately, NSW, I don’t think, has learned that lesson.” “I think that is staring us in the face, it’s just common sense. NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro told 2GB radio Mr McGowan should be embarrassed his state was in lockdown. Mr McGowan also shot back at suggestions he should adopt the NSW approach to managing COVID-19. “So he should not be criticising when we are doing the task he should be performing,” he said. Mr McGowan said Mr Dutton had responsibility for the quarantine of international arrivals but had instead left it up to the states. WA had gone 10 months without a community-based COVID-19 case up until the weekend. Wesfarmers said the five-day lockdown provided an opportunity for WA to stress test its track-and-trace capability because outbreaks in the months ahead were likely. One of the country’s biggest retail groups, Perth-based Wesfarmers, opened its Target and Kmart stores, but the doors will be shut on Tuesday. The retail industry also wanted clarity over whether workers could leave home to work in businesses still able to open without attracting a fine from WA police under measures imposed in the wake of a hotel quarantine security guard testing positive to COVID-19. ![]() Long lines formed outside Perth testing clinics in 38 degrees heat on Monday. There was uncertainty over which stores could open and miners took it upon themselves to cancel flights ferrying fly in, fly out workers to the state’s lucrative resources projects. The lockdown left the mining and retail sectors scrambling on Monday. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has backed Western Australia’s decision to impose a five-day lockdown to contain COVID-19 as the state’s Labor government launches a review into what critics say is another hotel quarantine fiasco.
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