SA Health will transfer all coronavirus-infected people isolating in CBD medi-hotels to a designated, police-guarded quarantine facility, while overseas travellers will be required to test negative for COVID-19 before boarding flights to South Australia, under a new eight-point plan to install more “shields” between the quarantine system and community.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced SA Police to spend an unbudgeted $10.9 million in the past three months while up to 550 sworn officers have been redirected from their usual policing duties to respond solely to COVID-19, Commissioner Grant Stevens says.
Victorians might have to wait for up to 28 days of no reported cases of community transmission before they are allowed to travel to South Australia, SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens says, after the eastern state today reached its second straight day of no new COVID-19 cases.
Police will begin to close Adelaide’s “top 20 highest risk” intersections across Adelaide by tomorrow in order to test red light cameras, after a surprise Supreme Court decision led to the suspension of 3000 unpaid red light fines and a legal requirement for cameras at 134 junctions to be tested every 28 days.