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Lynton GraceCommunity news editor

Lynton Grace is the community news editor with The Advertiser, after a long stint as a senior homepage editor.

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New restrictions, fourth case: How Covid fright has unfolded

Tough new restrictions have come into force in SA, after an 81-year-old man sparked a Covid cluster that has now grown to four cases. Here’s how it all unfolded.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos AUGUST 17, 2020: COVID-19 testing station at Victoria Park in Adelaide. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Brenton Edwards

SA Covid updates: Two people on flight yet to be located

Health authorities are still trying to trace two people on a flight an infected miner caught to Adelaide.

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Diners wearing masks at Lord of the Fries on Jetty Road Glenelg today after it was advised by SA Health to wear them but not mandatory Wednesday ,June,30,2021.Picture Mark Brake

SA Covid updates: What was revealed on Wednesday

A South Australian miner and four of his family members have tested positive to Covid-19 after he returned from the NT. However, SA is not going into lockdown and there are no new cases so far.

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ADV NEWSPremier Steven Marshall on the train Adelaide. Pre Budget interview on train.Pictures/Russell Millard

SA opens borders to regional Victoria

South Australia has eased its hard-border closure to Victoria today, opening back up to all areas apart from greater Melbourne.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos June 2, 2021:South Australian chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier and health minister Stephen Wade speak to the media conference regarding the Collingwood Football club travel exemption at the Adelaide Pavilion in Adelaide : NCA NewsWire / David Mariuz

‘Sweaty men’ have touched the ball, so just sanitise your hands

All aged-care staff are eligible for a Pfizer jab regardless of age from today, as Prof Spurrier clarifies her “don’t touch that ball” comments about the footy.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos June 2, 2021:South Australian chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier speaks as health minister Stephen Wade holds an umbrella during the media conference regarding the Collingwood Football club travel exemption at the Adelaide Pavilion in Adelaide : NCA NewsWire / David Mariuz

So you CAN touch the ball: Spurrier’s comments clarified

SA’s top public health official warned Crows v Collingwood crowd members to “not touch the ball” on Wednesday – but her comments have been tempered this morning.

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Rhys Roscoe holds his daughter Mia 20 months who arrived with his wife Safia to live in Adelaide with the last of the Melbourne passengers arriving at Adelaide Airport before the 6pm lockdown Wednesday May,26,2021.Picture Mark Brake

SA border shuts as Melbourne lockdown looms

SA’s border has closed to travellers from Greater Melbourne as Victoria braces for a fourth lockdown, set to begin at midnight. The indefinite travel ban will be reviewed daily.

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Kobi Shepherdson aged nine months from the Western Suburbs. Kobi died when she and her dad Henry Shepherdson fell off the Whispering Wall, Williamstown in the Barossa. Picture SA Police

Father in court hours before baby Kobi murder-suicide

The man who killed himself and baby Kobi at the Whispering Wall reservoir had been in court just hours earlier, seeking permission to have contact with his family. WARNING: This report may upset some readers

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 29, 2021: Passengers and Crew disembark from Brisbane Virgin flight VA1396 at 4.45pm and make their way to the COVID-19 processing station after the closure of SA borders to Greater Brisbane, QLD as a three down lockdown was announce today in Greater Brisbane, QLD, Australia today. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Emma Brasier

Venue limits will still rise despite Brisbane outbreak

Brisbane’s COVID outbreak hasn’t stopped plans to increase SA’s venue capacity limits from Wednesday. Pubs, restaurants, cinemas and other venues can go to 75 per cent.

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Boogie ban booted: Restrictions lift Thursday night

Fringe and Adelaide Festival organisers and artists have reason to dance in the streets, with restrictions on dancing to be relaxed and the border with Victoria opened.

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