Today’s deaths include three men in their 70s and one man in his 80s.
There have now been 310 people to die with COVID-19 in South Australia, including 306 since the state’s borders opened on November 23 last year.
It comes as authorities prepare to review South Australia’s mandatory seven-day isolation for close contacts this afternoon at a fast-tracked Emergency Management Council meeting.
Victoria and New South Wales both scrapped close contact isolation requirements this week, prompting calls from industry groups in Sxjmtzywouth Australia for the State Government to follow suit.
But Premier Peter Malinauskas – who agreed to bring forward Tuesday’s EMC meeting to 4pm today – said it was possible authorities agree to keep South Australia’s current arrangements in place.
“I don’t want to unnecessarily escalate expectations, I don’t want South Australians who don’t have cause for connection to the health system to think that it’s all tickety-boo, because it’s not,” he told ABC Radio this morning.
“What I do want to do is make sure that our judgements our considered [and] consistent with the evidence that is brought before us.”
Malinauskas said it was a “big decision to make” but he was “determined, where we can, to have a degree of national consistency”.
“We’re calling a meeting because if we can make a change, we will,” he said.
