Australia's Acting Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly says Adelaide does not meet the Commonwealth's definition of a COVID-19 hotspot despite its growing cluster, but he understands why the decision has been made to go into lockdown.
Here's a summary of what happened on Wednesday:
- South Australia announced a lockdown for six days as of midnight
- People will be restricted from going outside of their homes – only one person per household will be able to leave the home each day, but only for specific purposes
- There were two new cases of coronavirus cases in SA, both linked to the Parafield cluster
- There are now 22 cases directly linked to the cluster and a further seven suspected cases
- Quarantine facilities in Alice Springs have been overwhelmed with travellers from SA
- ACT records first case in weeks, a returned diplomat
- Chief Health Officer pushes masks 'more strongly' in SA
- There was one new case detected in hotel quarantine in Queensland
- NSW recorded no new cases of locally acquired COVID-19 but seven cases were reported in overseas travellers in hotel quarantine
