SA Health data shows the most common COVID-19 patients in SA and how they got it
Who in SA is most commonly getting the coronavirus? And how are they contracting it? We’ve broken down every case in the state by age, sex and where they got it.
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A man in his 60s who has returned from overseas is the classic coronavirus sufferer in SA, as new data reveals who has contracted the disease and where they got it in the first place.
As the Federal Government gears up to release localised heat map data that will help individuals and communities see if they live near a hotspot, SA Health is now publishing of break-down of the details of SA’s 299 know cases.
It includes revelations that may surprise some. For instance, only 11 of SA’s cases have come in children or teenagers. Despite concern around schools remaining open, the age brackets that have confirmed cases are people aged above 50. And people aged in their 20s and 30s have far more cases than kids.
SA VIRUS CASES BREAKDOWN
More men than women have contracted it in SA, with 157 cases compared with 142.
An overwhelming 217 of SA’s 299 cases were acquired overseas. Fifty-three are close contacts of known patients.
Only three cases are locally acquired with no known source, so-called “community transmission”.
Four were contracted during interstate travel.
Premier Steven Marshall says this is why he moved to close the state’s border, and why international arrivals in Australia have been stopped, as local authorities try to put a lid on the outbreak.
Health and Wellbeing Minister Stephen Wade said he was “very keen to get heat maps up”.
“They are being generated by the Commonwealth, and we are hoping they might be available within days,” he said on Sunday.
“I noticed a couple of states have started publishing state-based data, but we value the idea of nationally consistent maps so that people, no matter where they are from, they can read and understand.”
Opposition health spokesman Chris Picton said the State Government should be publishing details it already had of how many cases were in each SA council area, and could do so immediately.
“This is urgent,” he said “Other states … have been releasing every day the location data.
“We don’t need a heat map. All we need is a list. The public have a right to know.
“It’s done so that people have an official source of information, rather than scaremongering.”
Officials say that consideration must be given to whether the data shows the location of where coronavirus patients are, or where they are believed to have contracted it, when heap maps are produced.