Western Australia reaches new unwanted Covid-19 record

Western Australia has surpassed an unwanted record number of Covid-19 infections as the state nears the peak of Omicron.

The number of daily Covid-19 cases in Western Australia has surpassed 5000, as the state nears its peak of Omicron infections, but the number of people in intensive care remains steady.

WA Health reported a total of 5005 new cases overnight, taking the total number of active cases to 20,788.

There are 92 people with Covid-19 in hospital, including three who are in intensive care.

More than 2000 of the new cases were reported via rapid antigen tests.

This is our WA COVID-19 update for Friday, 11 March 2022.

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WA is expected to reach its peak number of cases next week.

The Omicron sub-variant BA2, which is more transmissible than BA1, makes up about 25 per cent of all WA cases.

BA2 has also been blamed for a spike in cases in NSW where many restrictions have been wound back.

But WA Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson said it had all been factored into WA’s Omicron modelling.

WA’s hard border came down last week.