All venue and home density caps will be removed, singing and dancing will be allowed and some COVID-positive cases will only have to quarantine for seven days under a raft of restrictions changes to come into effect from midnight Saturday.
UPDATED: State emergency coordinator Grant Stevens says he would like to relax close contact quarantine rules and has asked to extend emergency powers for potentially the last time – while confirming that government vaccination mandates would end when the legislation lapses.
Public sector employees are being advised to return to the office, with the State Government removing a cap that that had required 50 per cent to work from home.
Police commissioner and state emergency coordinator Grant Stevens says greater uptake of booster shots will be “absolutely critical” to lifting the state’s COVID-19 restrictions, as figures show hundreds of thousands of eligible South Australians are yet to receive their third shot.