Breaking: South Australia will impose further COVID-19 restrictions from midnight while scrapping mandatory PCR tests for arrivals, Premier Steven Marshall has announced.
South Australian premier Steven Marshall has announced a suite of further COVID-19 restrictions as fears grow over the spread of the Omicron variant, while lifting a requirement for mandatory PCR tests for people arriving in the state.
Density restrictions will be changed from midnight tonight in gyms to one person per seven metres, to one per four metres in indoor hospitality venues and one per two metres in outdoor hospitality venues."It will overwhelm our health system and seriously undermine our workforce's ability to respond to this Omicron outbreak.
"We also strongly advise people where they can to work from home, to do so immediately, where they can reduce the movement around the state, they do so immediately," Mr Marshall said.
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