CORONAVIRUS
— EXPOSURE SITES
286. Hon TJORN SIBMA to the Leader of the House representing
the Minister for Health:
I refer to WA Health deciding
against the publishing of the list of COVID exposure sites except for major
outbreak venues and superspreader events.
(1) As the
decision was made ''due to widespread transmission of COVID-19
throughout metropolitan and regional Western Australia'', are we in the
endemic phase of the virus?
(2) What are the thresholds for WA Health to determine
that a major outbreak or superspreader event has occurred?
Hon SUE
ELLERY replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
(1) No.
(2) WA Health is
currently working on updating its processes to use SafeWA QR data to determine
exposure sites of significant concern. These
might be locations where, during a specific time, more cases are detected
who were likely infectious at that time or may have been exposed at that time,
than one would expect from the current background rate of transmission in the
community.