Australian Medical Association (AMA) President Dr. Omar Khorshid has said that the Western Australian (WA) government could have done more to prevent the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent 3-day lockdown. A report came in early April identifying the Mercure hotel as “high-risk” for ventilation issues, one of three in Perth. According to Khorshid, the problem lay in a lack of expediency in delivering the report following WA’s last lockdown in February. “It is frustratingly slow,” Khorshid told Sky News Australia. “I think that is the main criticism of the WA government—that they have not done everything they could have done to make quarantine as safe as possible.” Khorshid said that hotels without suitable ventilation should either not be used, or if used, should separate occupants to avoid guests staying in rooms adjacent to one another. Khorshid emphasised that COVID-positive persons should be moved to separate facilities, a strategy that some other …