COVID-19 vaccinations will be mandatory in the hotel quarantine system from Monday, 10 May 2021 to help protect WA from an outbreak.
Any hotel quarantine worker who has not been vaccinated from this date will be prevented from entering quarantine facilities.
This includes security personnel, cleaners and hotel staff who have contact with guests and guest’s rooms, medical and health staff, ADF personnel and WA Police who work within the hotel quarantine system.
The next two weeks will allow opportunity for maximum vaccination uptake by hotel quarantine staff.
Hotel workers are the highest risk category for COVID-19, given their ongoing exposure to international arrivals, with more than 2,000 people in hotel quarantine on any given day.
For more information see the COVID-19 vaccination to be mandatory for hotel quarantine system media statement (external link).
