South Australian Police Commissioner Grantly Stevens, the State Emergency Coordinator, tests positive for COVID-19, the same day of record new case numbers of 2552. [1]
Mr Stevens test positive and is allowed to quarantine at home. Just a month ago Senator Alex Antic tested negative upon return to SA from Canberra and was forced to quarantine in a medi-hotel for 2 weeks.
Besides the international border restrictions lifting 2 days ago, on the 4th of December 2021 the SA interstate borders opened with the knowledge of Omicron, the most transmissible virus variant to date. Prior to border opening you had to be vaccinated to enter the state.
The recent spike in cases is logical, even with the 90% vaccination rate, because the vaccines don’t stop infection or transmission, they are said to only provide “protection against serious illness, hospitalisation and loss of life”, though that effectiveness may not last long.
In two years South Australia has recorded a total of 8 COVID-19 deaths.