UPDATED | SAPOL is in a “full-blown staffing crisis”, with a combination of vaccination mandates, emergency quarantine directions and redeployment to “COVID-related duties” taking hundreds of officers off the frontline and undermining police capacity to “wield effective control over crime”, their union says.
Three peak health unions will meet with the Premier and Health Minister this morning to discuss South Australia’s healthcare system and its ability to cope with the ongoing pandemic.
An Adelaide man has been arrested for allegedly lighting four fires in scrub near Streaky Bay on the state’s west coast.
South Australian hospitality venues have voiced concerns about having to enforce State Government reopening rules allowing only fully vaccinated patrons to participate in “high risk” activities such as attending nightclubs and stand-up alcohol drinking.