Health

UPDATED: A hotel quarantine security guard who roamed the streets of Perth while infected with COVID-19 "did everything right", a Western Australian health chief says.

Andrew Miller has sounded a note of caution after WA recorded no new cases of COVID-19 overnight, arguing the result was not evidence of no community transmission.

Opposition leader Zak Kirkup has backed the state government's decision to enter a five-day lockdown, hitting back at internet trolls in the process.

A Perth startup led by three tech veterans is planning to manufacture and export a new high-speed COVID testing machine after getting backing from the state government.

The state has recorded no further local cases of COVID-19 overnight, as health authorities track down more than 100 close contacts of a hotel security guard that tested positive for the UK strain.

Almost $2 billion will be spent equipping hospitals and other health centres to administer coronavirus vaccines.

Western Australians have completed their first night of lockdown, triggered after a hotel quarantine security guard attended more than a dozen venues while infected with COVID-19.

The Liberal Party would establish a $50 million fund to support those manufacturing products of critical importance, if elected.

Customers will have to check-in at the supermarket and takeaway outlets from February 12 after the state government expanded the mandatory contact tracing rules.

HBF Run for a Reason has been cancelled for a second year due to health concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

Coronavirus vaccine giants Pfizer and AstraZeneca will face a grilling from politicians hunting answers about Australia's immunisation effort.

As the federal government readies its vaccine rollout, can WA manage the health and economic risks of a second wave of coronavirus?

Construction has officially begun on Brightwater Care Group's new 128-bed residential aged care facility in Inglewood, with the facility expected to open next year.

Aged care organisations are investing in technology and dementia-friendly design as more people with the condition enter facilities.

Aged care and retirement living organisation Maurice Zeffert Home is not run by one chief executive, but three.

The royal commission and the pandemic have not stemmed the pipeline of aged care developments but they could have a lasting impact on how care is delivered.

Australia has put a stop to the New Zealand travel bubble for 72 hours after a South African variant of COVID-19 was detected in a woman after 14 days of isolation.

The Pfizer coronavirus vaccine has been provisionally approved for use in Australia with the first jabs set for late next month.

The Liberal Party has announced plans to allocate $316 million towards community mental health over the next four years, if it forms government.

Western Australia will reopen its borders to NSW and Queensland from Monday but travellers will still be required to self-isolate for 14 days and get a COVID-19 test.

Multiplex has been awarded the early contractor involvement tender for the second stage of the Joondalup Health Campus Development.

Western Australia's government has promised better transparency after it was not disclosed that several recovered COVID-19 cases were linked to the highly contagious British strain.

The head of Australia's health department believes it is unlikely international borders will substantially reopen this year, even if most people are vaccinated against coronavirus.

Western Australia is close to easing border restrictions for Victoria after the state extended its streak of no new locally acquired COVID-19 cases.

Perth-based biotherapeutic company Orthocell has received US approval for the use of its dental bone and tissue regeneration platform.

Premier Mark McGowan has urged the federal government to reconsider using remote commonwealth facilities to quarantine returned travellers.

Opposition leader Zak Kirkup has called on the state's chief health officer to front the media ahead of the roll out of the Pfizer vaccine in February.

Premier Mark McGowan is standing firm on his decision to keep the state's border closed to Queensland, despite the state not recording any new cases.

Hundreds return home as the state government reinstates its hard border with Queensland.

Opposition leader Zak Kirkup has backed the state government's decision to close the border to Queensland by midnight tonight.

The state's international arrival cap will be halved until mid-February under a national proposal by the chief medical officer.

Pre-flight testing of returning Australians will be introduced to help prevent the spread of the more transmissible variant of COVID-19 identified in the United Kingdom.