BREAKING: South Australia’s Covid-19 outbreak has risen to six infections after the state recorded one new local case overnight.
Premier Steven Marshall announced the additional case just after 7am, which takes Adelaide’s cluster to a total of six cases.
The Premier plunged the entire state in lockdown overnight due to the rising cases, which have been confirmed the highly contagious Delta variant. The outbreak was sparked by an 81-year-old man who completed hotel quarantine in Sydney after returning from Argentina with his daughter and flew to Adelaide on July 8.
He presented to Modbury Hospital on Sunday with symptoms before testing positive, putting the hospital’s emergency department into lockdown.Sign up
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