One more woman dies with Covid as new cases mount by 4201

An elderly woman has died with Covid as the state records a steady increase in new cases and hospitalisations.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

SA Health announced another death and a further 4201 new Covid cases on Tuesday.

A woman in her 80s who tested positive for Covid has died and there are now 170 people in hospital, including seven people in ICU. Two people are on a ventilator.

Of those hospitalised, 123 are fully vaccinated, 31 are either partially or unvaccinated and 16 have an unknown vaccination status.

The total number of people with Covid in SA is 30,767. To date, 257 people have died with Covid.

Monday, March 28, 2022

Three more people with Covid have died – a man and woman in their 80s and a man in his 70s.

South Australia has recorded 4140 new cases, bringing the state’s total number of active cases to 30,820.

There are 181 people in hospital including seven in ICU. Two people are on a ventilator.

Of those in hospital, 132 are fully vaccinated, 38 unvaccinated or partially vaccinated and 11 have an unknown status.

On Sunday, 3815 new cases were reported, and there were 158 people in hospital, six in ICU.

Friday, March 25, 2022

Four more people have died with Covid, SA Health reported on Friday, and another 4459 cases were recorded.

The four people who have died are a man in his 30s, a man in his 40s and another in his 80s, and a woman in her 90s. There are 157 people in hospital with Covid-19 and six of them are in ICU, with one on a ventilator.

Of those in hospital, 117 are fully vaccinated, 34 are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated and six have an unknown status.

The new Covid cases are a slight drop from the 4742 cases recorded on Thursday and still short of the record of 5679 set on January 14.

South Australia now has a record number of active cases at 28,190, plus tens of thousands of close contacts also in isolation.

Total cases in South Australia now number 227,182 and 246 people have died.

Genomic testing has shown that about 70 per cent of SA’s active cases are the new BA.2 Omicron variant.

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Two men, aged in their 60s and 70s, have died taking the toll of deaths of Covid-positive people to 242.

There are 157 people with the infection in hospital - four fewer than the previous day - but there are two more in intensive care for a total of 10, one on a ventilator.

SA has now recorded 222,149 cases.

The rise in cases and official warnings that it will get worse saw a 6.6 per cent jump in tests taken for a total of 16,628 but this is far behind the record of 25,943 set on December 31.

The number of people double vaccinated stands at 92.7 per cent. It hit 92 per cent on February 25 and is edging up very slowly. There are 95.1 per cent of eligible people who have had one shot, while 69.5 per cent of eligible people have received a booster shot.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Two people died with Covid as South Australia recorded its second highest daily rise in Covid-19 cases.

SA Health on Wednesday reported 4594 new infections, which is almost 1000 more cases than Tuesday’s total.

Records show it is the second highest spike and the biggest increase since mid-January.

But SA Health reported a fall in the number of patients admitted to hospital.

On Wednesday there were 161 people needing hospital care compared with 165 on Tuesday.

But this is a sharp increase on almost 100 reported 10 days ago.

SA Health also reported two more deaths, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 90s.

There was also a surge of people getting tested: 15,592 people received a PCR lab test on Tuesday, which was a jump of a third on the previous 24 hours.

There are three fewer intensive care patients with eight people in ICU, just one of whom is in an induced coma on a ventilator.

New modelling predicts more than 10,000 cases a day at its peak by next month.

Incoming Health Minister Chris Picton said he and Premier Peter Malinauskas were briefed that new restrictions was unlikely.

“We’ve been presented with some information that even if you were to do that now it’s probably not going to have a big impact upon those cases which have already started to rise,” he told FiveAA radio on Wednesday.

“So, really is about making sure we prepare our health system and also increase the booster doses.”

The paramedics’ union, the Ambulance Employees Association, said a patient, aged in his 60s, died after being ramped at Flinders Medical Centre for five hours on Tuesday afternoon. But the SA Ambulance Service reported that man had recovered from Covid.