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The number of COVID-positive patients in South Australian hospitals has risen as daily case numbers settle down amid a drop in testing, with the state today recording 4281 new infections.
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South Australia has recorded 5784 new COVID-19 cases – the state’s highest daily total since the pandemic began.
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Premier Peter Malinauskas says new modelling predicts the state will pass 8000 daily COVID-19 cases within weeks and that last Friday – the day before the state election – SA Health banned all non-urgent overnight elective surgery but the Marshall Government did not announce it.
The state’s chief public health officer has refused to say whether she advised authorities to relax all density caps before last weekend, after the state yesterday recorded its fourth-highest daily total of new COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.
South Australia’s chief public health officer says she is considering allowing close contacts of positive COVID-19 cases to leave quarantine to vote at polling booths at the March state election, as the number of new cases today increased to 1723, with one death.
UPDATED | The State Government is encouraging teachers in preschools to undertake surveillance COVID-19 testing, while some workers have been asked to return to the office from January 27 as the state recorded six more deaths and 3023 new cases.
