Boom Radio: Evening News Update
Prea Cunningham
Friday 8 May 2020
7:00pm
WA records one new COVID19 case
Western Australia has broken its eight-day coronavirus streak with one new case announced today.
Premier Mark McGowan said he disappointed following the encouraging run of cases in the previous week.
A 29 year old man contracted he virus after returning from overseas, bringing WA’s total number of coronavirus cases to 552 with nine still recovering.
Despite the new case, officials will forge ahead with Western Australia’s roadmap to ease coronavirus restrictions which is expected to be laid out in full by the end of the weekend.
ABF warns of faux COVID19 drug imports
A senior Australian Border Force (ABF) officer has warned of the potential risks of a new prescription drug entering Australia.
Hydroxychloroquine is a prescription-only drug used in the treatment of malaria and certain auto-immune diseases.
Its ability to treat COVID19 is still being disputed by experts due people taking the drug previously cause them to be in critical condition.
During March a US man died, and a woman ended up in critical condition after ingesting the drug.
ABF Acting Commander Susan Drennan said efforts to import the drug into Australia will be thwarted.
“Whether its individuals wanting to self-prescribe, or criminals aiming to sell the drug on the black market, our officers have the technology, skills and innovative processes to detect and disrupt their illegal importations of pharmaceuticals such as this.”
‘Creepy’ Cockburn faces seek makeover
The faces that one stood above the Cockburn Train Station and looked over the Kwinana Freeway will be no more.
Following the removal of the faces last October, Cockburn residents were surveyed as the Public Transport Authority (PTA) sought public opinion for a replacement.
43 percent of participants are calling for a new piece of art, 37 percent for an analogue clock, 12 percent wanting the space used for digital advertising whilst only eight percent wanted the faces to return.
The Public Transport Authority will put out a call through Tenders WA in the new few months for local WA artists to enter their designs with the PTA believed to be preferring indigenous artwork, native fauna and flora or local landscapes.
