SA Covid lockdown day 6: Lockdown likely to end on Tuesday night but tough restrictions will remain

Tough restrictions will replace the lockdown if there is no large rise in community cases in the next 24 hours, SA authorities say.

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South Australia is on course to emerge from its seven-day lockdown on Tuesday night, if no unexplained community cases of Covid-19 are detected in the coming day. 

SA recorded two new cases on Monday, one linked to the cluster and one an international arrival.

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The new case linked to the Modbury cluster is an 87-year-old man who contracted the virus at Tenafeate Creek Wines, chief public health officer Nicole Spurrier said. His wife is so far negative but has decided to move with him to the Tom's Court medi-hotel.

Pending no large rise in community transmission cases on Tuesday, SA will move back to a mix of level-four and level-three restrictions from Wednesday.

"Every indication is we will be moving out of lockdown from one minute past midnight from tomorrow night, Premier Steven Marshall said at Monday's press conference.

Mr Marshall said bookings for Covid tests had seen a huge jump, especially at the Ridgehaven site. He said he expected bookings for Victoria Park to begin on Wednesday. There were 17,260 tests on Sunday.

The hundreds of people in a medi-hotel after being at a tier-one exposure site will have to finish their two-week quarantine after the lockdown ends.

Prof Spurrier remains concerned about the situation in NSW, where 145 cases were recorded on Monday. She said South Australians need to be thinking "about using masks much more than usual" into the future.

Meanwhile, SA Heath has added a new tier 3 location to its list of exposure sites – the Parks Shopping Centre (toilets), Elizabeth Park, between 9.30am and 11am on Tuesday, July 20. If you were there at those times, get tested immediately and quarantine until you get your first negative test.

The times for other sites at Gawler East, Greenacres, Modbury, Munno Para/Smithfield, St Agnes and Surrey Downs also have been updated.