Three people have tested positive for coronavirus in South Australia outside of hotel quarantine.
Key points:
- An 80-year-old woman has tested positive for coronavirus in South Australia
- She went to a hospital and a supermarket while infectious
- Two of her relatives have tested positive and four more are showing COVID–19 symptoms
SA Health says an 80-year-old woman has tested positive for COVID–19 after being treated at the Lyell McEwin Hospital in Adelaide's northern suburbs.
Two of her close contacts — a woman in her 50s and a man in his 60s — have also tested positive for the disease.
Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said one of them worked at one of the medi-hotels in Adelaide's CBD.
One of them is the elderly woman's child.
Four other family members are showing symptoms, Dr Spurrier said.
"I am expecting we will have more cases, which is why I am absolutely warning South Australians: this is a wake-up call — if you have respiratory symptoms, you've got to get tested," she said.
The last positive case without a known source of transmission in South Australia was reported on April 16 — seven months ago.
About 90 people who were in the hospital's emergency department at the same time as the woman — between 5:30pm on Friday and 4:00am on Saturday — have been put into quarantine.
Dr Spurrier said the 80-year-old woman also visited the Parafield Plaza Asian supermarket between 10:30am and 11:00am on Thursday while infectious.
Anyone who was there at the same time should monitor themselves for symptoms.
Dr Spurrier said the medi-hotel was the likely sources of the positive cases but it was "very, very early information" and genomic testing would be undertaken to determine the source.
"Obviously, this is where we're considering the source to be," Dr Spurrier said.
Another man in his 30s tested positive in a medi-hotel after arriving from overseas.
A total of 526 coronavirus cases have been reported in South Australia since the beginning of the pandemic, including 19 active cases.
Four people have died.
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