It’s the first time since February 21 that Western Australia has recorded no daily change in the number of coronavirus cases.
McGowan has credited his state’s border closures with this result.
“I want to acknowledge the efforts of every West Australian through this pandemic crisis, the overwhelming majority of the community have in listening to the advice and following the new rules, for that I cannot thank you enough, Western Australia has done an incredible job but we can’t let it go to waste now, we need everyone to stay the course,” he said.
“I know it’s easy to think we have succeeded and we can just get back to normal, but we need to continue to be very cautious, we can’t get complacent.”
The two weekend cases included a Bali traveller and a contact of a previously confirmed case.
McGowan praised Western Australia’s “standout” response, including regional travel restrictions.
The Premier said people are continuing to arrive in the state.
Five domestic flights and one international flight – one cargo, one passenger plane from Doha – were scheduled to land at Perth airport today.
In the past 24 hours, 176 people arrived in Western Australia from overseas and interstate, of which 72 were essential workers exempt from quarantine, and 82 were placed in 14-day mandatory quarantine.
Without giving a firm timeline, McGowan said in coming weeks the government would consider lifting some lockdown laws.
He also announced a new app that he said would help limit community transmissions and offer West Australian residents and businesses certainty about travelling.
The G2G app was developed locally, he said, and offers people a way to apply for regional travel exemptions online.
So far, more than 8000 applications had been received from industry, and 1000 from citizens, McGowan said.
