Western Australia coronovirus update as at 18 March 2021

The Department of Health has reported no new cases of COVID-19 overnight.

The State's total number of confirmed cases remains at 927.

WA Health is monitoring 10 active cases of COVID-19 and 908 people have recovered from the virus in WA.

Yesterday 2557 people were vaccinated. To date, 25,503 West Australians have received the COVID vaccine.

Yesterday at WA Health COVID clinics 322 people presented for testing – 317 were assessed and swabbed.

There have been 912,734 COVID-19 tests performed in WA. Of those, 133,037 were from regional WA.

To date, 33 cases of variant strains have been detected in Western Australia (23 of the B.1.1.7 strain and 8 of the B.1.351 strain).

Visit WA Health's HealthyWA website for the latest information on COVID-19.

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