South Australia and Western Australia have had encouraging signs in the fight to contain the coronavirus spread, but the national death toll has risen with fatalities in Victoria and New South Wales
No new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in South Australia for the second straight day, with authorities vowing to closely monitor hundreds of Australian citizens arriving from overseas.Seven people are in hospital, with two men in intensive care. One of them, aged 68, is in a critical condition while the other, aged 75, is stable.The state has undertaken a testing blitz in recent days and SA Health Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier says 41,000 people have been checked in total.
Mr Cook says the latest case is a 60-year-old man in the Goldfields region who had been in close contact with a confirmed case and had been in isolation since 8 April."The current numbers suggest we've got this virus under control but we can't be complacent."Mr Cook urged the community to redouble social distancing efforts, saying eventual easing of restrictions would be done in small steps to keep a stranglehold on outbreaks and measure the impact of such decisions.
A second person has died at a Sydney high-care nursing home where a quarter of all residents and 13 staff have been infected. Of the total 1328 cases confirmed in Victoria, just 134 may have been acquired through community transmission.
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