SA lockdown on track to end after seven days
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South Australian Premier Steven Marshall says the state is on track to end a seven-day lockdown next Tuesday after just one new local case of COVID-19 was reported on Friday, but he baulked at giving up vaccine doses allocated to his state to bolster a vaccine rollout in western Sydney as case numbers worsen in NSW.
âAll the signs are very positive that this will just be a seven-day lockdown,â he said.
The new local case is a man in his 60s who was at the Tenafeate Creek winery near One Tree Hill in Adelaideâs north-eastern outskirts on Sunday afternoon. There are now eight cases linked to the winery, one of two transmission hotspots, the other being the Greek on Halifax restaurant in the Adelaide CBD. The overall cluster of 15 began with an 81-year-old man who went to the Modbury Hospital in Adelaideâs north-east on the weekend with respiratory problems.
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South Australia has recorded one new COVID-19 case as the state enters its first full day of lockdown and the list of potential COVID-19 exposure sites linked to a new cluster continues to grow.
SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said on Wednesday morning the case is a person who went to the Burnside Village shopping centre in Adelaide s west.
The new case brings the total number of infections to six, and will be included in the daily numbers announced later on Wednesday.
It comes after five cases were reported in the emerging cluster by Tuesday afternoon, with officials declaring the next 24 to 48 hours crucial to prevent virus infections running wild.
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Emergency financial assistance will be made available to all South Australians with the state government announcing income relief for regional workers.
Those in Adelaide, Gawler and the Adelaide Hills are eligible for the federal government s COVID-19 disaster payment because the metropolitan area has been officially declared a hotspot.
South Australian Premier Steven Marshall says his government will match the Commonwealth compensation for those in lockdown outside of the metropolitan area.
“We do from a health perspective want to include country SA in the lockdown and it’s not fair for them if they don’t have that disaster income support,” Mr Marshall said.
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