SA has recorded its first new coronavirus case in more than two weeks, after a woman who flew from Victoria was tested at Adelaide Airport and diagnosed.
South Australia has recorded its first COVID-19 case in 19 days — an overseas traveller who was given an exemption from quarantine.SA Health said the woman had a "significant number" of contactsSA Health said the woman aged in her 50s had travelled from overseas to Victoria where she had been quarantined in a hotel for less than a week, before travelling to South Australia.
Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said the woman is now isolated and there is "no further risk" to anybody in South Australia. However, all of those people were associated with her flight and her time at Adelaide Airport, and the woman had not been "freely moving around" the state.
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