Spike in virus cases in Adelaide quarantine puts pressure on medi-hotels
Adelaide is experiencing a spike in coronavirus patients returned from overseas, putting pressure on the state's medi-hotel.
A total of 14 people tested positive for the virus today in South Australia.
All are in hotel quarantine or at the city's special Toms Court medi-hotel, where people with the virus are sent.
It's the biggest number of cases since the city went into lockdown last November amid a cluster of community cases.
Tom's Court Medi-hotel in Adelaide, where Australians flying in from overseas with coronavirus are sent. Nine
However, three are old cases and are not longer Infectious.
There are now 32 people at the medi-hotel.
The special hotel has 90 rooms.
But because of the way coronavirus patients are spread out, after transmission occurred between rooms in other hotel's in other states, it's now close to capacity with that amount of patients
Before the figures were announced, South Australian Premier Steven Marshall said he didn't "want to see it going above that 30 mark," adding that would trigger discussions with the federal government.
South Australia takes 530 people Australians returning from overseas a week, with more than 34,000 trying to get back.
Meanwhile, the state is expected to lift restrictions against people coming from neighbouring WA, as the state's snap lockdown ended.
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