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The state's health minister has refused to say when WA will reopen its domestic border as eastern states struggle to suppress fresh COVID-19 outbreaks.

Tourism Minister Paul Papalia is facing backlash after he said accommodation providers in WA's regions were too full to take in any more from interstate.

The gradual reopening of other state borders is making it harder to justify following suit in Western Australia, the state's chief health officer says.

Premier Mark McGowan is maintaining his increasingly isolated hard border stance as the state recorded three new COVID-19 cases.

The C-suite just became bigger, with the COVID-19 pandemic throwing another key title into the top end of the corporate and government decision-making – chief medical officer – a role where Western

Australia will ban travellers from South Korea and introduce enhanced screening for travellers from Italy to deal with the coronavirus spread.

Improving the flow of medical data is at the forefront of three technology projects aiming to reduce health-care demand.

THE Department of Health says its rollout of a modernised patient administration system is on track, four years after the upgrade was given the green light.