10,000 Covid cases in WA

WESTERN Australia has surpassed 10,000 active cases of Covid-19, while the number of people in hospital has also increased.

There were 2289 new cases announced on Saturday morning, of which only 10 were travel related.

Just over 1500 were confirmed by a PCR test and 785 were self-reported rapid antigen tests.

It brings the state’s total number of active cases to 10,866.

The number of people in hospital has also increased to 28 – up from 21 on Friday – but none was in intensive care.

Health Minister Amber Sanderson thanked people for getting tested and urged everyone to keep checking exposure sites.

“Vaccination is our best protection against Omicron,” she told reporters on Saturday.

“This variant is dangerous and is seeing people become more and more hospitalised.”

Chief health officer Andy Robertson released revised visitor guidelines for public hospitals on Friday evening that will come into effect at 10am on Sunday.

There will be two categories of visitors – essential visitors and others.