Australia's Perth to enter snap lockdown after second Covid-19 case

People visit a Covid-19 mass vaccination centre in Melbourne

* Australia reports 2 coronavirus cases on Friday * One case, in Melbourne, linked to a Perth quarantine hotel * Second case in Perth a close contact of the first case Western Australia's capital of Perth and the neighbouring Peel region will enter a snap three-day lockdown from midnight on Friday after two people tested positive for Covid-19, the first cases of community transmission in Australia in a week. Australia has all but stamped out the virus thanks to mandatory hotel quarantine for returning residents and citizens and snap lockdowns to arrest the infection. The first case related to a man in Melbourne who likely contracted the disease during his two-week quarantine stay in a Perth hotel.