I know how much it can impact people's lives and businesses but if we need to go back into lockdown we will. Asked if WA could "still be headed" for a lockdown this week, Premier McGowan said "it is a prospect". Had what happened in the last couple of days occurred three weeks ago, we would have gone into lockdown immediately. The infected security guard, a man in his twenties, had already had his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, McGowan said. "There's two places in the world, countries of significant size that have avoided that, and that's New Zealand and Australia.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 02, 2021 03:33 UTC