WA Health will no longer publish daily updates of new COVID cases in the state from Friday.
Instead, COVID figures in Western Australia will be published once a week on Fridays.
The approach is being adopted nationally and was decided at a meeting of health ministers last week.
Today the state reported 1,161 new cases and a total of 5,849 active cases in WA.
There were also three deaths dating back to August 31, a woman in her 90s and two men in their 80s.
Daily updates on the spread of coronavirus, and for some time the lack of spread, have been published since March of 2020.
A spokeswoman for WA Health said the move was "in line with a national approach which is endorsed by Chief Health Officers".
The change will coincide with an end to mandatory mask wearing on public transport, and in taxis and rideshare in WA.
From Friday, limits on the number of visitors to aged and disability care facilities will also be scrapped but facilities will be allowed to set their own limits.
Top doctor warns 'COVID isn't over'
The WA President of the Australian Medical Association, Mark Duncan-Smith, said the health department would continue to gather daily data on COVID internally which was important to monitor for future outbreaks and variants of concern.
He said it was understandable the general public might suffer some COVID-fatigue from daily figures, which carried less importance than they once did.
But Dr Duncan-Smith said the pandemic was far from over and suggested NSW Premier, Dominic Perrottet, was at the centre of a political push to downplay the ongoing dangers.
"The Premier of New South Wales is pushing this agenda of pretending that COVID is over," he said.
"And partly I think that is of a philosophical and political motivation because they have got an election coming up in the near future."
"But COVID isn't over, we need to understand there is evidence out there, strong evidence, that the more times you get COVID, the more severe it is at the time, the more chance there is of permanent organ damage and long-COVID."
Dr Duncan-Smith said it was not all that long ago when the community waited with bated breath for each daily update and hung off every word.
"I think in the old days we were dealing with a lot of unknowns, we were dealing with scenes out of New York City with front end loaders digging mass graves," he said.
"And we didn't really know what we were going to get when it hit us."
State's health system still under pressure
The AMA WA President said for him the most memorable updates were when hospitalisations in the state started to climb rapidly earlier this year.
"And that became very scary from a health system point of view, and there was a potential for it to overrun the medical system, and thank goodness it didn't," he said.
"Certainly, I think it became very real, as far as the system goes, when we started to get the hospitalisations up around that 350 mark and over."
Dr Duncan-Smith said despite changing attitudes, the pandemic was still putting strain on an already under-pressure health system.
"And this a chronic problem through five years of underfunding and neglect from the McGowan government," he said.
"And unfortunately, we're in a place where it's been run into the ground so far that safety is compromised."
"And that's got nothing to do with COVID."
The last of almost 900 daily statements on COVID-19 by WA Health will be published on Friday 9 September.
The first weekly report will be made next Friday and every Friday morning after then.
