South Australia has reported three COVID-19 deaths as Premier Steven Marshall promises to ease more health restrictions to get people back to work.
Mr Marshall said there were about 1300 new cases recorded on Friday but he did not have the exact number.
That is a decrease from the 1538 detected a day earlier.
"Sadly, I do have to report today that there are three deaths in the last 24 hours," he told reporters.
The number of active cases has also fallen down to about 17,000, with around 220 people in hospital.
Mr Marshall said the falling case numbers would lead to more health restrictions being eased next week.
"We do want to prioritise those areas that are going to create employment opportunities for our state (and) get people back to work," he said.
"So we are talking about the hospitality sector, the tourism sector, the fitness sector, they are the areas that are most hard hit."
Caps on the number of people in homes will also be discussed but dancing restrictions are likely to remain.
The indoor face mask mandate is also set to remain into the future.
"I know this is annoying for many people but we know this is many ways our best line of defence," he said.
"I think we can be confident that we will now continue to see our numbers reduce and that means we can reduce restrictions in the next four, six, eight weeks," he said.
Mr Marshall defended the delayed listing of two exposure sites by SA Health, saying, "you cannot determine if something is a high transmission site until there has been a high number of transmissions".
"When it does go up, it does mean there has been a significant number."
Mr Marshall also said he was not concerned by the number of staff at school who had been forced to isolate, saying it was a large workforce and the numbers were proportionate to its size.
"We are very pleased with the return to school, extraordinarily high attendance, almost commensurate with non-COVID times," he said.
"Yes, there are teachers and students who are going to be impacted but I think the settings we have put in place are going to minimise that."
