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Angie RaphaelDeputy Chief of Staff, NCA NewsWire

Angie Raphael has almost two decades of experience as a journalist. Angie began her career in regional and community newspapers, then worked at the Australian Associated Press for 10 years before joining NCA NewsWire in Perth. Angie has specialised in court reporting, politics and entertainment, as well as covering bushfires, shark attacks and other disasters.

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Michael Darby was filmed marching in Perth’s CBD on Sunday in the middle of a lockdown that forced Anzac Day services to be scrapped.

Lone Anzac marcher in pic speaks

The identity of a lone man walking in an Anzac Day march during Perth’s lockdown has been revealed.

UPDATEDHealth Problems

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos APRIL, 09, 2021: Health Minister Greg Hunt with Professor Brendan Murphy during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra.Picture: NCA NewsWire/Gary Ramage

How infected man’s wedding was allowed

Health Minister Greg Hunt has attempted to explain why a traveller was able to enter Australia from India amid a spike in COVID-19 deaths.

NEWS ( FILE PIC ) Ambulances at Royal Perth Hospital . Generic .

Blunder forces paramedic into quarantine

A paramedic has been forced into quarantine after possibly being exposed to COVID-19 while transporting a sick patient.

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 4: Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan speaks during a media conference at Dumas House on September 4, 2020 in Perth, Australia. The premier announced that Western Australia is not in a recession and will not be prematurely reopening its borders at current. State and Territory leaders met today for the National Cabinet Meeting to discuss alternatives for state border closures and caps on international arrivals in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)

One new coronavirus case reported in WA

WA has recorded one new cases of COVID-19 as the Premier demanded the Morrison government ‘step up and help’ following a quarantine blunder.

Retail

Panic buying has struck in Western Australia

Panic buying before lockdown begins

Shoppers have begun panic buying in the final hours before Perth plunges into a three-day lockdown.

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 3rd 2021: In Hay Street Mall, police on bikes patroling downtown during day three of Perth's COVID Lockdown. Picture: NCA NewsWire /Philip Gostelow

All the virus rules in WA from midnight

Parts of Western Australia have been plunged into lockdown with people only allowed to leave homes for certain reasons. These are all the rules that begin tonight.

Travel Updates

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 22: A general view of the Mercure Hotel in Sydney's CBD on April 22, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. NSW authorities are urgently trying to track four people who stayed in a Sydney quarantine hotel where it appears there was a COVID-19 transmission between rooms. Three returned travelers at the Mercure Hotel on George Street in Sydney's CBD have been found to have contracted the same South African strain of the virus. They were staying in adjacent rooms on the hotel's 10th floor. Earlier this week three people in one family acquired the virus from a family of four also staying in an adjacent room at another Sydney quarantine hotel - the Adina Apartment Hotel Town Hall. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

Pregnant mum’s ‘shock’ virus diagnosis

A pregnant mother and nurse has described her ‘shock’ at learning she had contracted COVID-19 while quarantining at a hotel.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 31, 2021: DHHS staff conduct covid testing at the drive through testing site in Heidelberg on Wednesday afternoon. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Geraghty

Victorian man sick in community for days

The Victorian man who tested positive for COVID-19 was in the community throughout Perth for five days before he caught a flight to Melbourne.

Health Problems

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 13: WA Premier Mark McGowan addresses the media with a COVID-19 update on November 13, 2020 in Perth, Australia. Western Australia's borders will reopen from midnight tonight with travellers from all states and territories permitted to enter WA having to meet exemption criteria put in place during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. Travellers from Victoria and New South Wales will be required to self-quarantine for 14 days and take a COVID-19 test on day 11, while all other travellers will be required to undergo a health screening and temperature check on arrival and declare they haven't come from Victoria or NSW. Travel arrangements also need to be registered on the G2G Pass app. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

Shocking admission on quarantine hotel

A premier has conceded the quarantine hotel at the centre of a COVID-19 transmission is ‘not one of the best’ facilities.

UpdatedTravel Warnings

A health worker takes a nasal swab sample from a woman to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a testing center in Srinagar on April 21, 2021. (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP)

Calls to ban travellers from virus hot spot

National cabinet is being urged to consider temporarily banning travellers from India to combat a ‘double mutant’ strain of COVID-19.

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