New exposure sites in SA after third NSW truck driver tests positive for COVID-19

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SA Health identifies two new exposure sites connected with another truck driver from New South Wales with COVID-19.

SA Health has not confirmed any new locally acquired coronavirus cases connected with the truck drivers.

More than 140 people are in quarantine after visiting exposure sites the drivers visited last week in Ceduna, Port Augusta and Nundroo before testing positive in Perth — up from the 99 it mentioned yesterday.Ceduna and Port Augusta have had petrol stations listed as tier 1 exposure sites as community leaders call for calm.Port Augusta Aboriginal leader Vince Coulthard said his community was vulnerable and many were not yet vaccinated.

"Vaccination is a concern by a lot of members. They've been fed with a lot of, I suppose, not so true information about what the government's trying to do," he said. South Australia's COVID-19 Transition Committee is meeting this morning and is expected to discuss easing border restrictions with south-east Queensland.

 

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