Premier Mark McGowan has called a snap three-day lockdown for Perth and the Peel region after a man flew interstate after contracting COVID in hotel quarantine.

The lockdown will start at midnight tonight after a Victorian man became the third person to be infected with the highly transmissible UK strain while staying on the sixth floor of the Mercure Hotel Perth.

Mr McGowan said the man spent up to five days in Perth and visited a string of tourist spots and venues.

“We now need to assume he was infectious,” he said.

During his five days since leaving quarantine, the man went to stay with a family in Kardinya. One of those people has since also tested COVID positive.

Source: https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/coronavirus/coronavirus-wa-premier-mark-mcgowan-calls-snap-lockdown-after-covid-case-leaves-hotel-quarantine-ng-b881854664z