'Dodged a bullet': No COVID-19 cases in SA quarantine so far linked to infected truck drivers

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'Dodged a bullet': No COVID-19 cases in SA quarantine so far linked to infected truck drivers
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While SA has been on tenterhooks in the past few days, no COVID-19 cases have so far been detected among the hundreds of people now in quarantine after five truck drivers entered the state while infected.

South Australia's Premier says the state has so far "dodged a bullet" and that no COVID-19 cases have been detected among those now in quarantine because of infected truck drivers.But the SA Premier says the 90 per cent tested so far have returned negative resultsThe state has been on tenterhooks in the past few days, after it was revealedin the past fortnight.

"There's a bit of variance right across the state at the moment … [and] in some instances, we've got to be reminding people to do the right thing," he said. "Up to 26,500 [spectators] — I know there's a lot of Port supporters who will be very, very pleased," he said.

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