South Australia hit with COVID-19 outbreak after failed quarantine

Monday, 16 November 2020

South Australia is grappling with a new COVID-19 outbreak involving a cluster of 17 positive cases, which has been linked back to a quarantine hotel:

Seventeen coronavirus cases have now been linked to a cluster in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, South Australia’s Chief Public Health Officer says.

The new cases are linked to four community cases announced yesterday.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.