Covid update: 842 new cases with 23 now in hospital
There are now 23 people in hospital with Covid and an elderly woman has died as SA hit a record 842 new cases on Monday.
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The state hit 842 new Covid cases on Monday – the second record number in two days – as a 94-year-old woman with the infection died in hospital.
Twenty-three people now in hospital – four are in ICU, including a man in his 30s on a ventilator.
Today’s cases include 63 children, 49 teenagers, 362 women and 368 men.
The 94-year-old woman, from Adelaide is the fifth South Australian who had tested positive to Covid to die since the pandemic started.
SA Health said she tested positive before her death on Sunday. Another woman aged 100 also had contracted the virus.
“The woman acquired Covid-19 in South Australia, but the cause of death is currently being determined,” SA Health said on Monday.
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Of Monday’s cases, 513 were vaccinated, 117 unvaccinated and in 212 cases the vaccination status is unknown.
Also, 82 acquired their infection in South Australia and are known contacts of a positive case, while in 166 cases the origin of their infection is unknown.
Fifteen people were infected interstate and 579 cases are under investigation – although SA Health said yesterday they would no longer be interviewing everyone or listing every exposure site.
Of the hospitalised cases, 12 people are fully vaccinated, and 11 are either partially vaccinated or unvaccinated.
”We encourage anyone who has been out in the community to monitor closely for symptoms and get tested as soon as soon as they appear,” SA Health said in a statement today.
As of midnight on Sunday, tough density restrictions were reintroduced, with gyms back to 1 person per 7sq m.
Density for indoor dining is back to 1 per 4sq m and outdoor to 1 per 2sq m, while caps on home gatherings are back to 10, including children and babies.
In SA today there are 3974 active cases.
There have been 5162 cases reported in SA since the pandemic began and 4240 since borders opened on November 23.
There are 3860 people in home quarantine and 91 in medi-hotels.
BOXING DAY Covid UPDATE: DEC 26, 2021
On Boxing Day, 17 people were in hospital with Covid in South Australia as cases surged to a record 774.
“We are increasingly concerned about the Omicron variant,” Premier Steven Marshall said.
More than 20,693 tests were done in SA on Christmas Day and of the 774 new cases of Covid recorded on Boxing Day, 81 per cent are the Omicron strain.
Sunday’s new cases include 57 children, 40 teenagers, 346 women and 329 men.
Of these, 79 cases acquired their infection in South Australia and were known contacts of a positive case, 60 cases acquired their infection in South Australia with the contact unknown, 14 cases acquired their infection interstate, one case acquired their infection overseas and 620 cases were under investigation.
Of the 17 hospitalised cases, nine were fully vaccinated, two were partially vaccinated and six were unvaccinated.
Three people aged in their 30s, 60s and 70s are in ICU, with the man in his 30s on a ventilator. One is partially vaccinated and the other two are fully vaccinated.
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