South Australia has extended its border restrictions to the entire state of Victoria and imposed quarantine orders on travellers who have visited its busiest airport, after that state was today placed in a five-day lockdown from midnight in a bid to contain an outbreak of the UK strain of coronavirus.
Politics as usual went out the window in 2020, as stay-at-home orders, prospective vaccines and the promise of ‘vertical consumption’ became our proverbial New Normal – not to mention the odd frightened moment as we approached Christmas.
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.
“When you’re dealing with a pandemic, it’s better not to be seeking scapegoats and laying blame… it’s actually the virus that’s the common enemy.”