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One of the most confounding chapters in South Australia’s criminal history was closed today with longtime suspect Domenic Perre found guilty of the 1994 bombing of the National Crime Authority building in Adelaide, with relatives of his victims declaring that justice has finally been served.
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South Australia’s major emergency declaration to deal with COVID has been lifted – along with a mask mandate for schools – in a milestone shift for how the state manages the ongoing pandemic.
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Maintaining isolation requirements for COVID-positive South Australians will be “essential into the winter months” to protect the community, the Health Minister has declared while introducing a Bill to Parliament to allow existing restrictions to stay in place when special emergency powers lapse.
South Australia will scrap seven-day isolation requirements for COVID-19 close contacts from Saturday next week, the state’s Emergency Management Council has determined.
South Australia will aim for “national consistency” on close contact rules, police commissioner Grant Stevens says, as both Victoria and New South Wales scrap isolation requirements for family contacts of COVID-19 cases.
The Malinauskas Government says an extra 24 intensive care beds at the Royal Adelaide Hospital are being readied for use to prepare for next month’s expected surge of COVID cases as SA Health advises the hospital system is under “substantial strain”.
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.
