Based on health advice, a lockdown has been introduced for the Perth metropolitan area and Peel region starting 12.01am Tuesday, 29 June 2021 until 12.01am on Saturday, 3 July 2021.
People are required to stay at home unless they undertake duties as an essential worker who provide either an essential health service or essential goods and services.
Details are available on this page on what is an essential worker, what are essential health services and essential goods and services.
Essential goods providers
Essential providers may open, and employees who cannot perform their duties remotely may attend work in person in the following areas:
Supermarket, grocery, butcher, fruit and vegetable store or fishmonger
Restaurant, pub, bar or café for takeaway or delivery only
Indoor or outdoor market, but only to obtain groceries or fresh food and not to obtain food and beverages prepared on site
Bottle shop
Financial institution
Consular and diplomatic services
Court, tribunal or commission services
Post office
Newsagent
Pharmacy
Hardware store
Petrol station
Vehicle and mechanical repair services
Pet store or veterinary clinic
Child care or family day care provider
Urgent services necessary for the health and safety of any person, animal or premises.
Essential worker
Any person whose work is critical to the continued operation of the following services, and who cannot practicably work from home, may attend work in person.
Essential provider
Essential health services
Funerary or mortuary services or related activities
Bakeries
Emergency services including SES, fire-fighting, paramedical, ambulance, medial retrieval including RFDS, police, military and defence
Essential infrastructure and services without which the safety, health or welfare of the community or a section of the community would be endangered
Member of the public service of WA who is critical to or involved in the COVID response
Roadside assistance
Government or local government services
Domestic and commercial waste and resource recovery
Journalist and media services
Factory or facility that is not able to shut down without causing damage or loss to the plant and equipment
Mining for the purpose of critical maintenance and to avoid significant losses (limitation on FIFO mobilisation from affected area)
Building, maintenance or construction services
Administrative services provided by an employer to enable its employees to work from home
Organisations that provide urgent services necessary for the health and safety of any person, animal or premises
Public transport including taxis, rideshare and other public passenger services.
Air transport
Port operations
Transport, freight or logistics driver
Blood bank
Care services for people with particular needs
Truck stops and roadhouses
Heavy vehicle regulator
Production and distribution of food and groceries, liquor, medical and pharmaceutical products
Retail for the purposes of fulfilling click-and-collect or click-and-deliver orders.
Commercial operations that supply goods or services for the implementation of measures to limit the spread of COVID-19
Teachers and essential school/boarding school staff
Primary industries to the extent necessary to ensure supply of food to, and care of, animals and maintenance of crops.
Essential health services provider
Any provider of the following services may attend work in person:
Emergency surgery, procedures, and medical consulting for investigation, diagnosis, and management of conditions where failure to do so expediently and safely would lead to loss of life, limb, or permanent disability
Non-emergency but urgent surgery, procedures and medical consulting as above
Any health services provided in a hospital
Any health services provided by a GP
Any health services at a hospital radiology service other than routine screening
Procedures and surgical treatments by dentists in public health care centres for obvious facial swelling, facial trauma
Procedures to complete IVF treatment where a patient has commenced, any procedure for the preservation of eggs for future IFG
Surgical termination of pregnancy
Drug and alcohol services
Allied health services as essential workers in hospitals and residential care; private practice including telehealth, students etc