SA declares COVID-19 a notifiable disease.

Human coronavirus disease 2019 was declared by the South Australian Minister for Health and Wellbeing to be a controlled notifiable condition by notice in the Gazette dated 28 January 2020 under the South Australian Public Health Act 2011. [1, 2, 3]

As a controlled notifiable condition it became a “legal requirement of all medical providers and laboratories to report any suspected, probable or confirmed cases” to SA Health.

On July 19, 2020, COVID-19 was further added to regulation 5 as a “controlled notifiable condition” under the South Australian Public Health (Notifiable and Controlled Notifiable Conditions) Regulations 2012 (SA).

This legislation amendment provides the Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO) a “range of powers to require examination, testing, counselling, quarantine and detention in relation to controlled notifiable conditions”.

Never has COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 been defined by a case definition on the Federal Communicable Diseases Network Australia’s (CDNA) notifiable disease register, yet SARS, MERS, Monkeypox, RSV and many others diseases are there, but not pandemic COVID-19!