South Australia will go into a six-day Victorian-style lockdown in a bid to halt the COVID-19 wave, the Premier has announced.
South Australia will go into a full lockdown for at least six days from midnight Wednesday night in a bid to nip the latest COVID-19 wave in its bud.
There will be widespread restrictions affecting all areas of everyday life, from shopping to school and work.
The main aim is to affect a community pause, which the government is referring to as a “circuit breaker” to stop the spread, amid concerns the contact tracing teams will struggle to cope if numbers of potential transmission sites continue to rise above and beyond the existing 50.
At present, the teams are stretched to their limits with potential transmission sites identified right across the metropolitan area.
The government says this is a basic strategy of short term pain for long term gain.
SA Health has reported two new cases today, taking the total confirmed number of cases to 22.
But authorities hold grave fears over the Woodville Pizza shop on Woodville Road that is considered one of the Parafield cluster’s hot spots amid fears the disease has spread throughout the western suburbs.
There are at last 12 other cases still under investigation while more than 4000 people remain in quarantine either in their home or in medi-hotels.
Authorities are now concerned about the Findon and Woodville areas as well as Parafield, Elizbeth and Salisbury.
