Close to 1 million doses landed overnight as part of Australia's vaccine ramp up, with more than 800,000 landing in Sydney and almost 100,000 in Melbourne.
WA's Health Department confirms non-urgent surgeries in Perth and regional hospitals will be put off from Wednesday, as doctors warn the state would not cope with a serious COVID-19 outbreak.
A knife-wielding man is shot and killed by police at a house in the Perth suburb of Gosnells after stabbing an officer in the arm, with a second officer also injured in the incident.
Mark McGowan says it is still his plan to declare in the first half of December a date for the state to open up, but authorities will watch what happens with the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 carefully over the next week.
The WA government says its reopening plan remains on track amid calls to include 5 to 11-year-olds in the 90 per cent jab target, as the head of the Telethon Kids Institute welcomes the approval of the COVID-19 vaccine for young children.
Pictures reveal the scale of devastation caused by a blaze that ripped through Wooroloo east of Perth yesterday, with at least one home and several sheds burnt to the ground.
Perth’s mask mandate and hospitality COVID-19 restrictions will remain for
another week, with Western Australia recording one new case linked to an
infected French backpacker.
Another 62 locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 are recorded in Western
Australia, along with 13 cases linked to interstate travel, despite just 4,351
people being swabbed at PCR clinics yesterday.
