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Vaccinated people will be allowed to dance and stand up while drinking at licenced venues, nightclubs will reopen and home gathering caps will lift from December 28, authorities have announced, as South Australia recorded 64 new COVID-19 cases overnight.
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Premier Steven Marshall says most South Australians will enjoy a “normal Christmas” despite some having to be in isolation due to positive COVID cases, and he hopes that the transition committee will this week announce which restrictions will lift once the state hits its 90 per cent vaccination target.
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Police commissioner and state emergency coordinator Grant Stevens has warned South Australians to be flexible with travel plans amid concern about the new Omicron COVID-19 variant, but the transition committee has opted against making any changes to the state’s open borders.
South Australia’s long-awaited “COVID-Ready” plan will be released early this afternoon, with authorities expected to detail when borders will reopen and restrictions will ease.
UPDATED: The state’s top bureaucrat and head of the transition committee says he doesn’t know when the government will release its long-awaited “COVID-Ready” roadmap, or if modelling predicting a subsequent surge in COVID cases will be made public.
Authorities say South Australia’s long-awaited “COVID-Ready” plan is imminent, but decisions about border openings, lifting of restrictions and quarantine arrangements can’t be made until COVID-surge case modelling is received.
Victoria has posted a national record 1838 new cases of COVID-19 and five deaths, with more than 110 people in the state battling the virus in intensive care.
