A longstanding ban on dancing at South Australia’s pubs and clubs will be lifted from Friday but with some restrictions, while the state will also remove its remaining border restrictions with Victoria, the transition committee has ruled.
The state government says it’s “highly unlikely” to continue to waive liquor licence fees for pandemic-hit pubs and clubs, but is open to considering exemption applications from struggling venues.
South Australia’s first vaccinations for COVID-19 have been administered, with the premier and senior officials among the first to be jabbed to mark the start of the state’s “biggest-ever peacetime operation”.
A long-serving bureaucrat and former Labor Government adviser is overseeing “the largest peacetime logistical exercise” in SA history – the rollout of the state’s coronavirus vaccine – which the state’s public health chief hopes will usher in a more “nuanced” response to COVID-19 outbreaks.