Western Australia has recorded one new community case of COVID-19 as the state enters the second day of its four-day "circuit-breaker" lockdown.
Premier Mark McGowan said the new case, a 37-year-old man, is currently being interviewed by health staff after initially testing positive for the virus yesterday in Perth.
The state has also recorded three new cases in hotel quarantine, all from returned international travellers.
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New case attended gym
The new case of community transmission has triggered exposure site warnings for the Mobius Health and Performance Gym in Joondalup. It had previously been visited by another positive case.
Premier McGowan said there are "two possible scenarios" as to how the man contracted the virus, either at the gym on Tuesday, June 22 or Saturday, June 26.
"(The man) did the right thing and went and got tested and quarantined on Sunday 27 June. That test returned a negative result. He subsequently developed symptoms, was retested yesterday and has now returned a positive result." Premier McGowan said.
Following this new case, anyone who visited or worked at the Joondalup Gym since last Tuesday until today and has not yet been tested needs to self isolate and get tested immediately.
Luckily, authorities believe that this new case has spent most of his time in self-quarantine and wasn't infectious in the community, with Mr McGowan calling it "encouraging".
Its also been revealed a total of 310 close contacts have been identified in this community cluster, with 205 of those already returning negative tests.
WA SETS NEW COVID TESTING RECORD
A record number of COVID tests, 43,675, were also conducted across the state yesterday.
Mr McGowan praised Western Australian's for the strong testing result and said it was "a testament to West Australian 's dedication to doing the right thing".
"Getting tested is one of the best ways to keep it safe and get life back to normal as soon as possible," Mr McGowan said.
"Even if you have already returned a negative result ... get tested again."
Concerning the Northern Territory goldmine outbreak, Premier McGowan confirmed that 175 mineworkers who were tested in Western Australia have all returned negative COVID results but are still undertaking 14 days of quarantine.
McGowan advises against AstraZeneca for under 40s
When asked if he thinks people under 40 should be getting the AstraZeneca vaccine, Mr McGowan has said referred to the existing health advice advocating against it.
"The advice is they shouldn't …. that is the advice we have and that is the national advice from the immunisation experts," Mr McGowan said.
"Clearly, the Commonwealth has taken a different approach."
Mr McGowan went on to call for more vaccines to be made available to the countries states or we could risk another outbreak event in six months or a year.
"We just need to open up more to allow for it, otherwise what has occurred in Sydney and is occurring here and in Brisbane and NT and other places will continue to happen over the next six months to a year," Mr McGowan said.
