A boy has examined constructive for COVID-19 after being on the same flight as a Virgin Australia flight attendant who tested positive for the virus.
Key factors:
- A Virgin flight attendant examined constructive for COVID-19 final week
- Since then, a teenage boy on one of many identical flights with the attendant has additionally contracted the virus
- In the meantime, a truck driver with COVID-19 could have visited extra publicity websites than beforehand disclosed
SA Well being says {the teenager} was on Virgin flight VA219 from Melbourne to Adelaide with the flight attendant on October 4 and examined constructive for COVID-19 after a check yesterday.
He was one in every of 25 passengers who went into quarantine upon arriving in South Australia, as required underneath present border restrictions.
Nevertheless, after the constructive case, SA Well being stated quarantine preparations would now “mirror this increased stage of concern”.
The opposite 5 flights over three days that the flight attendant travelled on included:
- VA218 Adelaide to Melbourne on October 4
- VA827 Melbourne to Sydney and VA808 Sydney to Melbourne on October 5
- VA1593 Melbourne to Newcastle and VA1594 Newcastle to Melbourne on October 6.
Individually, SA Well being says a Victorian truck driver who tested positive yesterday failed to make use of QR code check-in, that means there could possibly be extra publicity places alongside service stations in Yamba and Port Augusta.
SA Well being has eliminated the BP Port Augusta Truckstop and changed it with the OTR service station in the identical city on the identical instances — between 11:00pm on Friday, October 8, and 12:30am on Saturday, October 9.
The driving force was escorted to a medi-hotel in Adelaide on Saturday after being examined at Yamba on Friday.
Vaccinations open to walk-ins
South Australia’s metropolitan mass vaccination clinics will take walk-in appointments from tomorrow.
Individuals will not must guide to get a jab on the Noarlunga, Playford or Wayville hubs.
About 72 per cent of South Australians over 16 have had their first jab, whereas 54 per cent are absolutely vaccinated.
ABC Information: Carl Saville
)Premier Steven Marshall stated it will make it a lot simpler for folks to be vaccinated.
“They will flip up and have that vaccination,” he stated.
“Individuals may be driving previous and have an additional half an hour of their diary, they will go straight in — whiz in — they usually’ll be defending themselves, their work colleagues and their complete state.”
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