South Australia is staring down a new coronavirus cluster, with four people outside of hotel quarantine diagnosed with COVID-19.
Key points:
- An 80-year-old woman and two of her relatives have tested positive for coronavirus in South Australia
- A fourth positive case is believed to be linked to the family cluster
- An Adelaide school will close on Monday due to a student being identified as a close contact of a positive case
SA Health said on Sunday an 80-year-old woman had tested positive after being treated at the Lyell McEwin Hospital in Adelaide’s northern suburbs.
Two of her close contacts — a woman in her 50s and a man in his 60s — have also tested positive for the disease.
Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said one of them worked in Adelaide’s CBD at one of the state’s medi-hotels — accommodation used by incoming travellers and local residents who could not safely quarantine at home.
One of the infected people is the elderly woman’s child.
Four other family members were showing symptoms, Dr Spurrier said.
Later on Sunday, authorities said a fourth person linked to the growing cluster in Adelaide had been infected.
An email from SA Correctional Services chief executive David Brown said an employee at Yatala Labour Prison in Adelaide’s northern suburbs had tested positive.
The email said the person was identified as a close family contact of one of the positive cases reported on Sunday afternoon.
It is not yet known when the employee was last at the prison, or whether they had contact with the prisoners.
