Police have fined a few beachgoers and seven people who attended a party — but most South Australians have "committed" to the six-day lockdown to stamp out the coronavirus cluster, Police Commissioner Grant Stevens says.
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It comes as the Hutt Street Centre pleads for people to stop verbally abusing the homeless given they have nowhere to go and one third did not know about the lockdown yesterday.
No new cases were recorded yesterday, and the total number of positive cases linked to the Parafield cluster dropped from 23 to 22 after a person was retested and returned a negative result.
Mr Stevens said he was pleased with the majority of South Australians who had taken the lockdown announcement in their stride and remained at home.
"We've seen a few isolated incidents where people aren't seeing the big picture. But we're talking about a handful of people compared to over a million people doing exactly what we've asked.
"We've handed out a couple of fines.
"There were a couple of people down on the beach who were blatantly disregarding the instructions and by their actions, it was clear they had no intention of complying."
He said seven people were also fined at a city party and two of those were charged with allegedly possessing more than 1.5 litres of the drug fantasy.
Mr Stevens said the circuit-breaker lockdown might be an "easier sell" to the public if the state was recording higher positive coronavirus numbers.
"It's a big ask, but my sense, from what I'm hearing from the community, [is that] people are prepared to do this.
"If there are no new cases, then that's a good thing because it means we did get ahead of this and our efforts weren't wasted."
Mr Stevens also said the restrictions were being reviewed on a daily basis, including the ban on all outdoor exercise, and "nothing is locked in concrete".
'Stop abusing the homeless'
Hutt Street Centre chief executive Chris Burns said there were about 200 people sleeping rough in the city, and the State Government had not given a directive to house them in hotels like it did earlier in the year.
He said when centre staff told them about the six-day lockdown, they were "very, very anxious".
"You could see the fear in their eyes," he said.
Mr Burns said homeless people who visited the Hutt Street Centre yesterday were "yelled at and abused" for not self-isolating.
"They don't have the luxury of having a home to self-isolate [in] and experience the lockdown. They don't watch TV, they don't read the newspaper so we have to explain things to them," he said.
"They haven't been put in hotels like the first lockdown — their belief is that it's a short six-day event so there's been no directive to take all rough sleepers off the street.
"It's a health emergency and we need to do all that's necessary."
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