Perth and the Peel region in Western Australia will be classified as a COVID-19 hotspot from 10am on Tuesday, Premier Peter Gutwein has announced.
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The reclassification follows a decision by the WA government to send residents from those areas into a four-day lockdown as of midnight on Monday.
It also means that anyone from Perth and the Peel region will not be permitted to enter Tasmania until the risk level is downgraded.
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Metropolitan Sydney remains a high-risk area as does Wollongong and the Central Coast and Blue Mountains area.
Greater Darwin is also a high-risk area.
The government's coronavirus website has hundreds of high-risk premises listed in New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Victoria.
Mr Gutwein said three Tasmanians who were on a mining worksite subject to a COVID outbreak remained in isolation.
He said they had each returned a negative result for the first of two COVID tests they were required to take.
Mr Gutwein said Tasmania had a record of 1289 tests conducted on Monday.
He said there were no plans to implement new intrastate restrictions at present.
Political reporter for Australian Community Media, based in Hobart.
Political reporter for Australian Community Media, based in Hobart.
