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Students and teachers will have to wear masks in schools for at least four more weeks when the new term begins on Monday, authorities have announced, as South Australia recorded 3463 new COVID cases today and seven deaths.
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The quarantine period for household close contacts of positive COVID-19 cases has been halved from 14 days to seven while an April 14 deadline has been set to remove mask-wearing rules, Premier Peter Malinauskas has announced.
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Premier Peter Malinauskas says new modelling predicts the state will pass 8000 daily COVID-19 cases within weeks and that last Friday – the day before the state election – SA Health banned all non-urgent overnight elective surgery but the Marshall Government did not announce it.
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.
