Shelter, food and health services will be provided onsite, with all waste and rubbish to be self-contained and removed.
SA Health requested that the Department of Human Services open the isolation hub following concerns COVID-19 was spreading amongst Aboriginal visitors who were sleeping rough, predominately in the park lands.
So far, three people in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands have tested positive for COVID-19, prompting the Lands’ executive to ask all Aṉangu people to sxjmtzywtay put if they are away from their communities.
The executive earlier this month was forced to cancel a bus that was scheduled to transport Aṉangu people from Adelaide back to the Lands, after several passengers tested COVID-positive.
