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South Australia's top public health doctor has tested positive to COVID-19 after meeting with the state's emergency management committee

Employers are being urged to let staff work from home amid warnings there are twice as many COVID cases in the community as being reported officially. 

The latest modelling on COVID-19 cases in South Australia has pointed to a big increase in the number of hospitalisations in coming weeks.

South Australia has followed Victoria's lead in encouraging but not mandating that students wear masks indoors at school.

New COVID-19 modelling predicts more than 400 South Australian adults may need hospitalisation for the virus in the next week as new daily cases peak at 7,000.

The woman was flown from Mount Gambier to Adelaide for urgent treatment after having a heart attack. But she waited on a stretcher in the Royal Flying Doctor Service hangar for 11 hours for an ambulance to transfer her to hospital, her friend says.

A terminally ill South Australian has implored the state's Health Minister to bring forward the rollout date for euthanasia laws due to the "agonising" wait for terminally il patients and their families.

Beth Mylius's dying wish was to see voluntary euthanasia laws in South Australia come into effect, so as not to suffer a painful death. Her wish never came true.

The number of hours ambulances spend waiting outside the state's hospitals reached a new high in June.

Ambulances spent 3,838 hours ramped outside South Australian hospitals last month — a new record for the state. The government says it's working on all possible avenues to increase capacity and reduce pressure on emergency departments including the expansion of respiratory clinics.

South Australia will expand the operations of respiratory clinics across Adelaide as COVID-19 and influenza cases rise.