COVID-19 restrictions to ease in WA

Level two COVID-19 restrictions will ease in Western Australia from Thursday, March 31 with Premier Mark McGowan confirming the State is now at the height of the Omicron wave.

The new restrictions means visitors at the home will be limited to 30 people instead of 10 while private outdoor gatherings will be capped at 200.

The 150 patron cap on nightclubs and hospitality venues will be lifted to 500 and removed completely from April 14 while the 50 per cent capacity limit at major stadiums including Optus will be increased to 75 per cent.

Masks will still remain mandatory indoors for adults and children in Year 3 and above.

People will no longer have to check-in at retail outlets including supermarkets and other low-risk sites but must still check-in at higher-risk venues that require proof of vaccination.

The limit of two visitors will remain per resident per day to residential aged care and disability care facilities.

There will also be no change to essential visitors allowed to hospitals (e.g. for compassionate reasons such as end of life, accompanying a child or patient with complex needs, birthing partner, carer of a person with a disability, chronic illness and frailty).

Critical worker, school and childcare settings also remain unchanged.

“Western Australia’s soft landing through the Omicron wave is on track - with COVID-19 hospitalisations and ICU admissions lower than expected thanks to our world-leading vaccination rate," Premier Mark McGowan said.

“Given this, we can now ease most Level 2 measures back to modified Level 1 measures after only four weeks - just as we had planned.

“As we continue through the Omicron wave, we will continue to review and adapt measures as necessary.”

On Thursday, WA recorded it's highest number of COVID cases with 8616 new cases.

To 8pm on Friday, the cases dropped to 8133, bringing the total number of active cases to 45,306.