NSW is heading into a "red zone" after recording more than 170 cases of COVID-19 in two weeks despite managing to keep a low daily growth rate, an epidemiologist has warned.
Meanwhile, South Australia is on a state of high alert after it reported two new cases and flagged possible infections across several businesses in Adelaide's northern and north-eastern suburbs.
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