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UPDATED: South Australia will close its border to travellers from Greater Melbourne, Geelong and Bacchus Marsh and reimpose a series of internal restrictions, including a return to 50 per cent capacity at public venues, as all of Victoria prepares to enter a five-day lockdown.
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SA Health is still waiting to confirm if a possible case of COVID transmission in a North Terrace medi-hotel is linked to the Delta variant, with authorities saying 14 people who were quarantining on the same floor are now out in the community.
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In significant COVID developments this afternoon: SA Health searches for another NSW removalist exposure site, reveals another infection possibly caught inside an Adelaide medi-hotel, and considers tightening arrival restrictions due to a rise in Melbourne cases.
UPDATED | SA Health has listed a café in Tailem Bend as an exposure site while another location is being investigated as health authorities work to track down at least 18 people who visited a Shell service station in the town late Friday afternoon, after a Sydney removalist spent time inside before testing COVID positive.
UPDATED: SA Health has confirmed that a second removalist who travelled to McLaren Vale from New South Wales has tested COVID-positive, while a 72-year-old South Australian woman has died after her first shot of AstraZeneca vaccine.
Chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier has withdrawn her “tongue in cheek” advice for attendees at Saturday’s controversial Crows/Collingwood game not to touch the football if it comes near them, with her deputy claiming her comments were “taken out of context”.
Confusion around the type of face mask required for anyone attending a healthcare setting will finally be cleared up – with SA Health forced to remove a stipulation from its directions that the mask has to be surgical grade.
