More sites, longer hours as test demand surges

South Australia’s daily COVID testing rates have surged to their highest levels in three months as authorities look to manage demand with longer operating hours and more clinics opening for testing.

Pakistan team repeatedly virus tested before NZ arrival, six test positive after

The chief executive of the Pakistan Cricket Board has warned the national squad on tour in New Zealand to obey COVID-19 protocols or see the whole team being sent home, after isolation breaches following six members testing positive upon arrival.

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More staff testing, more pay needed after medi-hotel virus breakout

The virus outbreak from an Adelaide medi-hotel shows that all staff working in such quarantine facilities should be tested not just weekly – as ordered only after the fact – but daily, argues epidemiologist Catherine Bennett. And increased pay for those staff must be discussed to avoid them having to work at other sites and risk infecting others.

SA's test blitz on Victorian visitors

South Australia will embark on a COVID-19 testing blitz to check anyone who has spent time in Victoria in recent weeks.

Adelaide opens drive-through coronavirus clinic

South Australia has recorded no new coronavirus cases, as it launches what the State Government calls the nation’s first “drive-through” COVID-19 testing centre at an Adelaide hospital.