South Australia has recorded a COVID–19 case in an 81-year-old man who presented to the Modbury Hospital in Adelaide's north eastern suburbs with symptoms late last night.
Key points:
- An elderly man who returned from Argentina to Adelaide has tested positive to coronavirus
- Close contacts, hospital staff and patients will self-isolate
- A school his grandson goes to will reopen tomorrow
At 2:30am, the man returned a positive coronavirus test, and that hospital's emergency department is now in lockdown.
The man had been in Argentina with his daughter before completing two weeks of hotel quarantine in New South Wales.
While in quarantine, he had a fall and spent ten days in a NSW hospital, before coming to South Australia on July 8.
The man, his daughter and six close contacts have been put into quarantine.
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)So far, the daughter and a grandson have tested negative.
The Elizabeth Vale School in Adelaide's northern suburbs was closed while authorities ensured the grandson had not attended during school holidays, but that school will reopen tomorrow.
Premier Steven Marshall said it was unclear whether the man contracted the virus in hotel quarantine or in hospital.
"We don't draw any conclusions about where this infection came from, we simply don't know. This is very, very early days," he said.
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)No lockdown for now
Mr Marshall said a lockdown was not being called at this stage but it was likely there would be further internal restrictions put in place later today.
"At this stage, we don't envisage a lockdown situation immediately in South Australia," he said.
Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said the extent of those restrictions "is yet to be determined".
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)The man received a COVID vaccine while in Argentina, but Mr Marshall said it was unclear which one.
He is now in the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
He initially arrived at the Modbury Hospital's emergency extended care unit, as he had respiratory symptoms.
Twenty-seven patients and 24 staff in the vicinity will go into quarantine.
Sixteen primary close contacts of the man have been contacted and told to "stay put", Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said.
"He has got quite a large family here in South Australia," she said.
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)Exposure sites named
Professor Spurrier listed three exposure sites associated with the man: the Modbury Commonwealth Bank from 10:00am-11:15am on Tuesday, July 13, and 10:30am–12:15pm on Wednesday, July 14; Gaganis Bros in Hindmarsh from 1:00pm–2:30pm on Friday, July 16; and the Golden Grove OPSM from 3pm–3:45pm on Saturday, July 17.
SA Health later added Aldi at St Agnes shopping centre from 10:20am–11:30am on Tuesday, July 13, along with other locations.
"We will have times when this gentleman has been in the community and we know that with the Delta strain the transmission can occur with very fleeting contact with other people," she said.
"It is wonderful to have those negative tests back this morning, but I'm going to feel more confident over the next couple of hours when those tests roll in."
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)She said SA Pathology had described the man as having an "acute infection with a high viral load".
"With the previous variant, and that was when we had the Parafield cluster, we knew that one person on average would pass it onto two-and-half other people; we also had more restrictions then so it was more like one person would pass it onto one-and-half, two people," she said.
"At the moment with the Delta variant, one person passes it on to five other people; this is what is playing out in Victoria at the moment — a very high hit rate of infection.
The South Australian government banned travel from Victorian residents farther than 40 kilometres from the SA border overnight and limited travel from Broken Hill to essential travellers.
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