SA Health checking possible medi-hotel COVID transmission

Health authorities are scrambling to discover whether a Melbourne man who tested positive to COVID-19 after serving 14 days in a South Australian medi-hotel was infected during his quarantine.

Quarantine must check out of city hotels

Leaks, lockdowns and no end in sight – it’s time to move out of medi-hotels and into standalone quarantine centres, argues Michael Toole.

Emily Kirkpatrick and Stephen Wade at the showgrounds today.

Medi-hotel workers refusing vaccine as SA records eight new cases

Up to 15 per cent of workers in South Australian medi-hotels are yet to accept a COVID-19 vaccine injection, health authorities have revealed, as the state today recorded its highest single-day increase of coronavirus cases in quarantine.

Spurrier rejects remote quarantine for SA, warning of transmission risk

SA’s chief public health officer says it’s “horses for courses” as to whether states should seek to shift quarantine facilities away from their CBD, saying a rejected proposal to repurpose The Bend motorsport park might have worked if it was “closer to Adelaide”.

New rules, testing for medi-hotel staff

New directions have come into force overnight for South Australia’s medi-hotel workers, formalising nationally mandated daily saliva testing and work requirements for the state’s frontline quarantine workers.