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Police Commissioner Grant Stevens has launched an inquiry into the death of a truck driver who slammed into other trucks queueing at a state border checkpoint overnight. Also announced this afternoon, South Australia will relax testing requirements for travellers from New South Wales and Western Australia from Sunday.
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People travelling into South Australia may need to receive a fourth coronavirus test on day 16 of their stay, while dancing at nightclubs will remain off the table for at least another week as authorities reconsider the blanket ban.
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Up to 50 people will be able to gather at people’s homes, masks in public won’t be encouraged and stand-up drinking will return to pubs and bars under a raft of revised restrictions to kick in from Monday, as authorities eye a return to normality early in the new year.
SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens has overruled the advice of chief public health officer Professor Nicola Spurrier to immediately relax density caps on hospitality venues to one person per two-square-metres, as the state today recorded its sixth straight day of no new coronavirus cases.
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.
