It’s an eerily familiar scene. One most of us had never seen before March 2020 and hoped we’d never have to see again - a city grinding to an almost complete stop.
But as authorities work quickly to try to arrest the spread of the fast-moving Covid-19 Delta variant, South Australia has been forced into a major lockdown for the third time since the global pandemic began.
Our photographers have been venturing out to capture the scene in a city that, less than a week ago, was enjoying the spoils of a virtually-Covid-free lifestyle, cheering their team on at packed football ovals or enjoying the many winter festivals that were, but no longer are, in full swing.
As our cameras show, while usually-busy streets and malls are now all-but-deserted, the only real signs of life to be found are at our many Covid-testing facilities, where anxious South Australians sit idly in their cars, some of them for up to 24 hours, for the dreaded swab.
Besides a handful of essential workers, deployed to keep the city ticking over, you’ll find the only real sliver of normalcy in our parks and public spaces, where people have been exercising their precious right to... well, exercise - both body and soul.
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