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The national cabinet will this week consider restarting elective surgeries and IVF treatment as it prepares the health system for the road out of the coronavirus pandemic.
Declaring the immediate threat of Australian hospitals being swamped with COVID-19 patients had passed, Health Minister Greg Hunt said the focus was on delivering enough personal protective equipment to restart elective surgeries which have been suspended since March.
"We now have a sustained and genuine flattening of the curve," Mr Hunt said on Sunday. "At this point, Australians have done magnificently and we are not facing a threat to our hospitals."
Police have charged a woman following an alleged assault in a busy CBD street.
Police say two female international students were walking along Elizabeth Street about 5.30pm on Wednesday when they were confronted by a group including two women in their 20s and a male.
The students were told to "go back to China" and were taunted about coronavirus.
The 18 and 20-year-old Melbourne University students responded to the taunt and were then attacked by one of the women from the group
The line to get in to Ikea Innaloo today was out the door as people prepared to wait to get in to the homewares superstore.
Hundreds of people queued outside as a select number of customers were let in.
Home isolation has proven to be the time to get to those odd jobs around the house done, with renovations also increasing across the state.
WA opposition leader Liza Harvey says it makes “no sense” to delay important transport and infrastructure projects during the pandemic as the state’s unemployment rate reaches nearly six per cent.
At a press conference on Sunday, Ms Harvey called on the state government to release its plan for jobs and economic recovery post COVID-19, and parked METRONET and infrastructure projects needed to start as soon as possible to ease the current unemployment rate.
“We’ve got METRONET projects that haven’t started,” she said.
“We’ve got money sitting in the bank and no jobs flowing into the economy ... we need jobs, we need people to be employed so that they can spend money in our businesses and stop all of these small businesses from going to the wall because of COVID-19.
The federal Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer Alison McMillan said that progress was being made in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, but that Australians, particularly frontline healthcare workers, needed to remain vigilant.
The flattening of the curve is “satisfying and very encouraging,” but concern around outbreaks – notably in north-western Tasmania and in NSW nursing homes – remain.
"If you are unwell, please don’t go to work,” she said, as she reminded healthcare workers to remember to practice social distancing themselves.
"That is how we are going to protect those most vulnerable in our community from this pandemic as we go forward."
Ms McMillan also announced an influx of personal protective equipment coming into the country.
“That goes to protect and support our frontline healthcare workers as they go about their daily business,” she said.
Experts have weighed in on Federal government plans to launch an app that will trace every person who has been in contact with a person who has tested positive for coronavirus through their mobile phones.
The plan aims to automate contact tracings, and allow the easing of social distancing and self-isolation restrictions.
Tech expert Geoff Quattromani spoke to Radio 6PR's Weekend Breakfast to address listener’s concerns about the app.
The departure of the Artania cruise ship could see WA’s daily case numbers drop even further.
Over 40 per cent of WA’s total COVID-19 cases originate from cruise ships, and over 70 people on board the Artania tested positive for the virus.
WA Health Minister Roger Cook said now the Artania was leaving Australian waters, it was likely case numbers would only continue to decrease.
“Up to 60 passengers and crew that left their hotel accommodation in Perth [and Joondalup Hospital] to depart on both the Artania and a charter flight that left earlier this morning,” he said.