A five-year-old who has COVID-19 has been transported back to hotel quarantine after being assessed at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide this morning.
Key points:
- Medical staff have assessed a five-year-old child with COVID-19
- The child was transferred from hotel quarantine to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital this morning
- New data shows more young people are opting to get the AstraZeneca vaccine in SA
SA Health said the girl had returned to Adelaide’s Tom’s Court Hotel for COVID-positive patients where she will stay with her family after being seen by doctors.
As of yesterday, there were 16 active cases of COVID-19 in South Australia.
Five are the family of a man who contracted the virus in the Tanami mine in the Northern Territory.
The family remains in quarantine.
It is unclear whether the five-year-old is linked to that family.
The rest are travellers returning from overseas.
Premier Steven Marshall said he was not aware of the transfer this morning.
It comes as South Australians enjoy eased social restrictions, after authorities pre-emptively imposed tighter rules amid concerns over several clusters in other states last week.
That includes a return to full capacity of 50,000 seated spectators at Adelaide Oval for Port Adelaide’s clash with Melbourne on Thursday night.
The Adelaide Oval will allow fans to sit in the first two rows closest to the field.
Pods at 75 per cent capacity will return to the Northern Mound of the oval, and vertical consumption will be allowed in QR-coded corporate and function areas.
The Tanami Mine cluster spread to a number of states and territories, after a worker at the site tested positive.
Some young South Australians put their hands up for AstraZeneca
Data also shows that more young people are opting to get the AstraZeneca vaccine in South Australia, after the rules for GPs were eased to allow them to offer it to those under 40.
Federal data shows that 910 people in the state under 40 got the vaccine between Tuesday and Saturday last week.
In the previous five days, 504 people received the jab.
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