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Coronavirus crisis: Timeline of events which sparked Perth, Peel COVID-19 lockdown

Michael TraillThe West Australian
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VideoWA to enter three-day snap lockdown

Metropolitan Perth and the Peel region will go into a three-day lockdown from midnight on Friday after a hotel quarantine outbreak led to community transmission.

Premier Mark McGowan says the lockdown is a necessary measure after two people, including a man who stayed in the hotel and completed quarantine before flying to Melbourne, spent days in the community while infectious.

Anzac Day dawn services will be cancelled and all people in the affected regions must wear masks when leaving their homes from 6pm on Friday.

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"I know this is hard to take and I wish we didn't need to be doing this," Mr McGowan told reporters.

"But we can't take any chances with the virus. We just can't."

A timeline of events which sparked lockdown

April 3 - Man in his 50s arrives in Perth, having spent time in Shanghai.

April 8 - Independent review determines the Mercure was the most ‘at risk’ of transmission.

April 15 - Man in his 50s tests negative in the Mercure.

April 16 - WA’s Chief Health Officer tells Premier Mark McGowan the Mercure would be closed as a quarantine hotel

April 16 - British nurse Alison Rose and her four-year-old daughter test positive for COVID-19 while at the Mercure

April 17 - Man discharged from Mercure hotel quarantine

April 17 - Man stays with a friend and her two children in Kardinya.

April 18 - He visits a swimming pool in the southern suburbs, has a coffee in Leeming and dinner in Northbridge.

April 18 - He stays at St Catherine's College at UWA.

April 19 - Man attends traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and visits Northbridge and stays at St Catherine’s.

April 20 - He visits Kings Park and Northbridge.

April 21 - Man has breakfast in the common area of St Catherine’s College

April 21 - Man flies to Melbourne from Perth on flight QF 778

April 23 - A woman the man stayed with in Kardinya returns a positive test.

April 23 - Man returns positive test in Victoria.

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