Boom Radio: Morning News Update
Cooper Bailey
Monday 6 April 2020
9:00am
WA Covid19 Update
WA Premier Mark McGowan has released the latest stats on COVID-19 in WA. A further 17 new cases have been reported from people aged between 26 and 78, bringing the state total up to 453.
McGowan has said that nine of these cases were related to overseas travel, three from cruise ships and a further from close contact with affected people.
With numbers lower than previous the Premier isn’t taking a seat but instead bracing for tougher times.
“It seems like this has been going for a long time, but we have only just started this battle here in WA.”
“This is a marathon, not a sprint. We are heading into the storm, not out of it,” he said.
Man arrested after ‘escape’ from quarantine hotel
A Victorian man currently in quarantine at a Perth hotel has been arrested and charged for breaching quarantine laws and allegedly ‘escaping’ his hotel.
According to police, the 35-year-old had wedged a fire door open to slip out unnoticed.
The man arrived in WA on March 28th and was ordered into immediate quarantine under the Emergency Management Act set to finish his quarantine on the 13th of April.
Faulty ‘at home’ COVID-19 tests intercepted
Hundreds of faulty ‘at home’ COVID-19 testing kits have been seized by the Australian Border Force (ABF) with 250 of them said to be headed to Perth.
Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton revealed yesterday that many of these packages were intercepted by the ABF and that 200 of them were headed to Wembley Downs with a further 50 headed to Morley.
The Good News: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom’s gender reveal
American singer Katy Perry has revealed the gender of her and her fiance Orlando Bloom’s first child over the weekend.
After revealing Perry’s pregnancy in her latest music video for her song ‘Never Worn White’ the celebrity power couple took to Instagram to announce the gender of their child, revealing that they are having a girl.
The simple caption of ‘It’s a girl’ was enough to break the internet with many other celebrities joining in on the celebrations including Dua Lipa who commented ‘yaaaaaaaaaaaay’ followed by a series of love hearts and the American Idol Instagram account, of which Perry is a judge, commenting ‘Yaaaasss! Let her BLOOM!
