An 81-year-old Adelaide man has sparked the city s first Covid scare in months after testing positive following a trip to Argentina with his daughter.
He turned up at South Australia s Modbury Hospital over the weekend with virus symptoms, despite quarantining in NSW for 14 days on his return to Australia.
The elderly man also spent a further 10 days in a NSW hospital after injuring himself in a fall while in quarantine before returning to SA on July 8.
The Adelaide hospital s emergency unit has now been closed and put into lockdown while deep cleaning takes place.
The man s daughter - who was with her father on the Argentina trip - and his grandson are also now in quarantine but have tested negative.
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