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The Australian city of Perth is entering a snap five-day lockdown after a security guard working at a quarantine hotel tested positive for coronavirus.
Western Australia capital state Perth had no case of locally acquired coronavirus for 10 months but with the positive case for the virus; lockdown has been imposed from today at 18:00 (10:00 GMT) until Friday night.
Schools, restaurants, bars, cinemas and gyms have been ordered to close. Only essential travel is allowed following proper measures with compulsion to wear masks.
People in the city of two million - along with people living in the nearby Peel and South West regions - must stay at home, except for essential work, healthcare, food shopping or exercise, said Western Australia state Premier Mark McGowan.
A scheduled return of schools on Monday has also been delayed by a week because of a new snap lockdown.
