South Australia coronavirus cluster grows again as pizza bar link confirmed
South Australia has recorded two new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours and both are believed to be linked to the Parafield cluster.
Key points:
Two new cases have been linked to the Parafield cluster
One is the Woodville High School case and another a close contact with an existing case
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A man in his 40s has returned a positive test, and authorities have said he is a close contact of someone who is linked to the cluster.
His case takes the total number of cases in the cluster to 31.
"This person was in quarantine and was quarantining with his family," Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said.
"So we feel quite confident that because of the circuit breaker in that period of time and because our contact tracing team had been able to get hold of the people involved with this part of that cluster, we don't have a risk of that going any further forward."
The other case was announced last night — a teenage girl who attends Woodville High School.
Dr Spurrier said the year 11 student had been linked from an "epidemiological point of view" through contact with the Woodville Pizza Bar.
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Genomic testing had still not been completed, she said.
"It looks as though she has had an exposure at the Woodville Pizza Bar, having picked up a pizza on November 14, which indeed was an infectious period and we knew there were people that were there that were infected," Dr Spurrier said.
"So it's very, very important for anybody now in that Woodville area, particularly if you frequent that pizza bar, to really look back at our website and the dates that we know people were infectious and absolutely think 'do I need to get tested?'"
The school has been closed today and anyone who attended on Monday, November 23, has been ordered to isolate immediately with their families.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-26/new-cases-parafield-coronavirus-cluster-as-pizza-link-confirmed/12923300
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