A three-day Covid-19 lockdown in the Australian city of Perth and neighbouring Peel region will be lifted after after no new cases were found in the past two days.
Perth and the Peel region were placed into a hard lockdown from Saturday after an infected traveller from overseas, who likely contracted the novel coronavirus during his two-week quarantine in a Perth hotel, visited several venues while unknowingly infectious. "The short three-day lockdown has done the job it was designed to do," state Premier Mark McGowan told reporters in Perth. "It was a circuit-breaker we needed to limit community spread and keep our community healthy." Two million people in Perth and Peel's near 150,000 residents were ordered to stay home, except for