South Australia will be in lockdown from tonight after recording a further two new cases of Covid overnight, bringing the total for the state to five.
From 6pm on Tuesday night, the entire state will enter seven days of lockdown with only five reasons for people to leave her homes. We are dealing with a different highly contagious variant. We have seen this in Victoria. We don t want this moving across our state as we have seen elsewhere, Premier Steven Marshall said on Tuesday.
South Australia is dealing with an outbreak of five Covid cases of the delta variant. Pictured: Health workers perform tests at the Covid-19 testing facility in Victoria Park, Adelaide
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South Australia flags further COVID-19 restrictions after elderly man tests positive
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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.