News
A COVID-positive child under the age of two has died in South Australia – although the cause of death hasn’t been determined – as the state records another 1374 cases, down slightly from yesterday.
Opinion
SA Health is considering lifting its state ban on Rapid Antigen Tests which are in use across much of Australia. While they’re not yet allowed here, Thea van de Mortel explains to a national audience how a home test works and compares with PCR used at official testing sites.
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UPDATED | South Australia has recorded 154 new COVID cases today, as the Premier apologised for wait times of up to nine hours at testing clinics and announced that interstate visitors would no longer have to be swabbed on arrival to reduce demand on the overburdened system.
UPDATED: Premier Steven Marshall says there are no plans to call on Australian Defence Force personnel to help out at Adelaide’s swamped COVID-19 testing sites, after Police Commissioner Grant Stevens earlier today raised the option while conceding hours-long waits and huge queues were a “disincentive”.
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.
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.
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.
