NSW records four new locally acquired cases as Daniel Andrews calls for daily testing of quarantine hotel workers . Follow all the latest news and updates
1.40am GMT
Marshall said that from midnight tonight, anyone coming into SA from greater Brisbane will be required to quarantine for 14 days. But he notes that because of the lockdown in greater Brisbane, no one in that area should be travelling.
People already in SA, who have been in greater Brisbane, will be contacted and urged to get a test.
It is important to also note that with regards to this case that has come to light in Brisbane, one of the hotel quarantine workers, this person has used public transport and has done shopping. A net is being put over all of the close contacts of the person at the moment but we need to be very about, in South Australia, anybody who has been in the Greater Brisbane area will receive an SMS message from SA Health today requiring them to go and get themselves tested. Anybody who has been in the Greater Brisbane area since 2 January will be required to have testing here in South Australia and those people will be advised by SMS later today. We will clearly be looking very closely at this case over the next three days.
We expect the testing in Queensland will significantly increase and we will be looking very carefully at that. And if we need to take any further action with regards to board restrictions with Queensland, then we will have no hesitation in calling a press conference in doing that immediately.
1.36am GMT
Marshall said they also decided against increasing the number of international arrivals. I’m not clear if he is commenting just on SA’s capacity here or on the national cap.
We made a decision within National Cabinet today that we would not be increasing the overall number of international repatriation flights we have coming in.
There was some pressure for states to increase their room caps, but South Australia will be remaining exactly where we have, which is at a diminished level from where we were several weeks ago, prior to the Parafield cluster.
