COVID-19 SA update: No new cases for Tuesday August 11

SA recorded no new coronavirus cases for a fourth day on Tuesday, with just eight patients remaining.

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South Australia continued its recent streak of no new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday.

Only eight active cases remain.

Three are from international returnees, but five are from the “Thebarton cluster” started by an essential traveller returning from Victoria.

Four people have died in the state, and the remainder of the 459 total cases have recovered.

More than 294,000 coronavirus tests have been undertaken, and 4029 on Monday.

Health Minister Stephen Wade said SA Pathology’s testing load had doubled in the past two weeks – from about 2500 a day to 6000 a day.

Another 20 staff will be recruited to help deal with the backlog of test results.

An IT glitch which resulted in a delayed test result for people in isolation has now been fixed.

The Federal Government has called on companies to ramp up operations to help produce a COVID-19 vaccine locally.

A further 19 lives were lost in Victoria in the past day, and 331 new cases were detected, giving that state a total of 8000.