No new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in South Australia overnight.
Key points:
- No new cases have been detected in the state, including any linked to a mine worker with the Delta variant
- SA Premier Steven Marshall said that man's close contacts and passengers who shared a flight remain the groups of most concern
- Passengers on that flight will continue to get tested today
But Premier Steven Marshall has cautioned there is still more testing to be done today.
Five people from one family were put into hotel quarantine in Adelaide yesterday after testing positive to the Delta variant.
They included a fly-in fly-out (FIFO) worker who flew back to the state over the weekend from a Northern Territory mine where another worker tested positive for the Delta variant of COVID-19.
The South Australian mine worker in his 30s had worked at the Granites mine in the Northern Territory and returned to South Australia last week.
He and his family immediately self-isolated, but his wife and three of their four children — all under 10 — tested positive on Tuesday.
Mr Marshall said authorities were concerned about two groups of people — the 121 passengers who shared a Virgin flight from Alice Springs with the FIFO worker, and about 28 other workers from the mine who are in home quarantine in South Australia.
"We haven't had any advice that anybody's returned a positive sample from yesterday, but of course there's still more testing to go on today," he said.
The next 24 to 48 hours are considered crucial in South Australia, after the state staved off the threat of lockdown yesterday.
"There are a couple of groups we're concerned about — one are the miners, they've already been having their testing and that will continue. We'll make sure we monitor them very carefully, they're in home quarantine at the moment," Mr Marshall said.
"The other group are the people who were on that Virgin airline flight on Friday, June 25.
"My understanding is now that all of the passengers on that flight — I think there were around 120 in total — have been contacted.
"Originally, we only contacted those people who were two rows in front, two rows behind, and those people either side of the person who might have been positive.
"In this instance, because it's the Delta variant, we've decided to, out of an abundance of caution, get in touch with everybody [and] put them into isolation."
Interstate outbreaks the 'main concern'
Hundreds of people who were in the Adelaide Airport and at a fast-food outlet at the same time as the man have also been contacted, as well as people who dropped off supplies to the family while they were in home isolation.
"We use the QR scanning as people come off aeroplanes now in South Australia and so we were able to look at the time people had been QR-scanned when the gentleman had come through the airport," Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said.
"We were able to SMS them very promptly, and it was over 100 people."
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)Professor Spurrier confirmed that she had not received "any concerning news" this morning, and that testing would continue today — but the biggest risk remained from interstate.
"There might have been one or two people we couldn't get tested last night and we’ll be doing that this morning," she said.
"The predominant strain now worldwide is Delta. At any rate, we need to treat anybody as though they’ve got the Delta strain.
"[But] my main concern is … actually what is going on in other states.
"If we feel we've got our own issue under control with the miner here, even though we might have other miners become positive here in South Australia, if they are in quarantine that doesn't pose any risk to the South Australian public.
"But if we've got outbreaks in other states … even though we've got our borders in place, it still means that there's a risk for South Australia."
On a lighter note, Professor Spurrier said arrangements were being made to look after the mine worker's family's dog, who is pregnant.
Today she gave an update on the dog's condition.
"The dog was transported, is with RSPCA and is doing very well."
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