South Australia has recorded a COVID–19 case in an 81-year-old man who presented to the Modbury Hospital in Adelaide’s north eastern suburbs with symptoms late last night.
At 2:30am, the man returned a positive coronavirus test, and that hospital’s emergency department is now in lockdown.
The man had travelled with his daughter to Argentina and then returned to Australia to do two weeks of hotel quarantine in New South Wales.
While in quarantine, he had a fall and spent ten days in a NSW hospital, returning to South Australia on July 8.
The man, his daughter and six close contacts have been put into quarantine. So far, the daughter and a grandson have tested negative.
The Elizabeth Vale School in Adelaide’s northern suburbs was closed while authorities ensured the grandson had not attended during school holidays, but that school will reopen tomorrow.
Premier Steven Marshall said it was unclear whether the man contracted the virus in hotel quarantine or in hospital.
“Everyone who has come into contact with this 81-year-old gentleman will now need to go into 14 days of strict quarantine — directed quarantine — so we can contain this as quickly as possible,” Mr Marshall said.
Exposure sites named:
SA Chief Public Health Officer, Nicola Spurrier, today listed three exposure sites associated with the man:
- the Modbury Commonwealth Bank from 10:00am-11:15am on Tuesday, July 13, and 10:30am–12:15pm on Wednesday, July 14;
- Gaganis Bros in Hindmarsh from 1:00pm–2:30pm on Friday, July 16;
- The Golden Grove OPSM from 3pm–3:45pm on Saturday, July 17.
“We will have times when this gentleman has been in the community and we know that with the Delta strain the transmission can occur with very fleeting contact with other people,” Ms Spurrier said.
“It is wonderful to have those negative tests back this morning, but I’m going to feel more confident over the next couple of hours when those tests roll in.”
No lockdown for now:
Premier Marshall said a lockdown was not being called at this stage but it was likely there would be further internal restrictions put in place later today.
“At this stage, we don’t envisage a lockdown situation immediately in South Australia,” he said.
The man received a COVID vaccine while in Argentina, but Mr Marshall said it was unclear which one.
He is now in the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Source: ABC News.
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