SA Health has linked the positive coronavirus case at Woodville High School to the Parafield cluster through the pizza bar that was at the centre of South Australia's brief lockdown last week.
Key points:
- A high school student has tested positive for COVID-19
- Her infection is believed to be linked to the Woodville Pizza Bar
- More than 1,000 students have been sent into home quarantine
Authorities announced yesterday evening that a teenage girl who attends the high school has tested positive to COVID-19.
Anyone who was at the high school on Monday this week has been told to isolate immediately, as have all members of those people's households, until further notice.
About 1,000 students have already gone into isolation.
This morning, Deputy Chief Public Health Officer Mike Cusack said the case was part of the Parafield cluster, in which COVID-19 was spread by a cleaner and two security guards at the Peppers medi-hotel to close contacts and family members.
Dr Cusack said the link between the cluster and the student's case is suspected of being trough the Woodville Pizza Bar, where one of the security guards had worked while infectious.
But Dr Cusack said the exact way the high school student caught the virus was yet to be established.
He said SA Health contact tracers had worked through the night in efforts to narrow down how the virus was transmitted and who may be at risk.
"We do believe that the case is linked to the Parafield cluster and does not represent unknown transmission in the community," he told ABC Radio Adelaide.
"The link that we're looking at, at this stage, is the pizza bar.
"We believe that the student was in school on Monday when they were likely to have been infectious."
He urged anyone who has been in the Woodville area, and who develops COVID-19 symptoms, to self-isolate and get tested for the virus.
Education Department staff and industrial cleaning crews have arrived at Woodville High School this morning, where multiple cleaning crews are undertaking a deep clean of the site.
South Australia was sent into lockdown last week partly on the basis of a lie the security guard had allegedly told contact tracers — that he had purchased food there, but did not work there.
That claim South Australian health authorities to believe the virus was extremely transmissible and that potentially thousands of people could have picked up the virus from getting food at the pizza shop.
The lockdown was cancelled when it became clear the man had worked there, and he has expressed remorse and apologised.
Chief Public Health Officer Professor Nicola Spurrier is expected to provide more detail on the latest case at a media conference today.
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