Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced three extra cases of coronavirus have been identified within South Australia's Parafield cluster.
Key points:
- Three new coronavirus cases have been added to the Parafield cluster
- The virus may have been picked up from a surface at a medi-hotel
- A record number of tests were conducted in SA yesterday
A spokesman for South Australian Health Minister Stephen Wade confirmed the cases, saying they were in addition to one case announced by the Premier this morning.
The spokesman said it brought the total number of confirmed and suspected cases in the Parafield cluster to 23.
Mr Hunt said all the new cases were among the same family and there were "no cases of community transmission in South Australia outside of that cluster".
Premier Steven Marshall told State Parliament this afternoon there were "in excess of 5,300 tests conducted yesterday", which was a record for the state.
"We all know that the incubation period for this disease can be up to 14 days so we still do have an anxious wait to see what the true situation is in South Australia but there is more and more data coming in all the time," he said.
He said the virus was transferred to a cleaner at the Peppers Waymouth medi-hotel "via a surface" and that they believe she infected two security guards but none were symptomatic.
He said he did not believe there had been a breach of the state's hotel quarantine system, but SA Health would conduct a "fulsome" review once the threat of the Parafield cluster was over.
Mr Marshall and South Australian Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier are due to give an update this afternoon.
Five schools have now closed because of connections with the northern suburbs cluster — Roma Mitchell College in Gepps Cross, Mawson Lakes School and Preschool, Thomas More College in Salisbury Downs, Holy Family Catholic School in Parafield Gardens and Mount Carmel College at Rosewater.
SA Health has released a list of dozens of locations across Adelaide where people could have become infected.
Authorities have urged people to get tested if they have developed symptoms after visiting those locations.
New coronavirus restrictions came into force at midnight, including limits on gatherings in homes and licensed venues and a temporary ban on community sport.
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