澳洲新冠肺炎疫情持續，南澳州政府18日宣布，周四凌晨零時起封城，為期6天。所有居民須留在住所，學校、餐廳等場地都要關閉，以遏止疫情爆發。
當局表示，措施將於周四凌晨零時起生效，所有民眾禁止外出，每戶家庭每天只能允許一個人外出一次，但僅限於特定目的，外出時必需戴口罩。而所有學校、餐廳、酒吧、咖啡店、學校及戶外運動場地都要關閉；建築行業亦要停止運營，老年護理及殘疾人士居住設施將被封鎖。
另外，禁止舉行婚禮、葬禮，禁止公開房地產拍賣和戶外活動，食品和醫療產品以外的工廠也將被關閉。而超市、公共交通、水電及通訊設施、醫療服務等維持運作。
南澳州首府阿德萊德市自周日起累計36宗確診個案，當中旅館群組增至22人染疫。當局形容，要在疫情萌芽階段，採取迅速果斷的行動阻止病毒擴散。
措施宣布後，當地市民紛紛湧入超市搶購生活用品，多間超市外大排長龍，當地政府呼籲市民不要進行恐慌式購物。
Today in "it's starting to look a lot like a prison-state using Covid as the excuse" news...
Harrowing scenes are surfacing at the Peppers Adelaide medi-hotel in South Australia, where travelers who were already in a 14 day quarantine have been told that they have to undergo the 2 week process for a second time.
This has resulted in guests screaming from their balconies to be released from the hotel, where some are being forced to stay despite testing negative for Covid, according to news.com.au.
The standoff comes as the country tries to deal with a local cluster
of cases that has more than doubled. More than 4000 people locally, who
are considered "close contacts" have been quarantined, as a result.
Professor Nicola Spurrier, Chief Health Officer, said: “These people have been advised to quarantine and they are being contacted on a daily basis for a symptom check. This is a huge amount of work, as you can imagine, to make sure that we are in regular contact with these people.”
The country has been able to identify 21 cases linked to one family cluster, which includes three young children and a baby. The state's draconian measures are coming after reporting 18 new cases yesterday and 5 new cases today. Including the hotel, there are now 34 active cases, with 3 of which coming from a nursing home in Adelaide.
The CEO of the Anglicare Brompton Aged Care Home in Adelaide called
it his "worst nightmare". So far, all residents at the home have tested
negative and are being tested daily.
The cluster was said to have started by a female cleaner working at Peppers, who then passed it to her family and two unrelated hotel security guards. It has triggered closures and isolation warnings across the area.
Second possibly only to some Asian areas, Australia has done well in limiting the spread of Covid throughout the country.
With just 27,756 cases and 907 deaths throughout the course of the pandemic, the country has been helped along by its geography - and the overreaching measures, like these, it has taken to control and and trace the virus.
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