The Australian city of Perth will begin a snap five-day lockdown after a security guard at a quarantine hotel tested positive for Covid-19, authorities have announced.
Roughly two million residents of the city must stay at home, as will those living in the nearby Peel and South West regions.
A scheduled return of schools tomorrow will be delayed, with locals only permitted to leave their homes for exercise, medical care, essential work or to buy food.
The new rules follow the first case of community transmission in Western Australia state for ten months, officials said. "Our model is to deal with it very, very quickly and harshly...