Western Australia has recorded no new cases of locally acquired coronavirus as large parts of the state entered the first of a five-day lockdown. The whole Perth metropolitan area, the Peel region and the south-west region were placed in a hard lockdown at 6pm last night. WA Premier Mark McGowan called the snap lockdown after a young male security guard tested positive to COVID-19. It appears possible the case has the highly transmissible new UK variant.