'Super-spreader event' blows up plans to reopen SA-NSW border
South Australia's planned border reopening with NSW and ACT has been postponed.
The SA-NSW border was scheduled to open on July 20, but the spiralling cluster outbreak in Sydney has halted those plans.
Premier Steven Marshall described the Crossroads Hotel at Casula in south-west Sydney a "super-spreader event".
Covid-19 Testing at the Crossroads Hotel in Casula where a Coronavirus cluster emerged after July 3rd. The car only testing cues snaked 1km around the block. James Brickwood/SMH
An aerial view of the Crossroads Hotel in Sydney, Australia. Getty / Brook Mitchell
That outbreak, which today was linked to a Kmart and aged-care home in NSW, made it too risky to open the borders to NSW and ACT.
"We know this is going to be very inconvenient," he said.
South Australia has been one of the least affected states and territories in the country, last registering a case on June 29.
The last reported case before that was May 26.
Mr Marshall said his "primary responsibility" was keeping South Australians safe and healthy.
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Medical staff at a pop-up COVID-19 testing clinic, perform tests on drivers in the Sydney suburb of Casula. Getty / David Gray
Today, the Queensland government blacklisted Campbelltown and Liverpool areas in western Sydney as hotspots.
Residents from those suburbs trying to enter Queensland would be refused.
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