The South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has announced that all positive COVID-19 cases in his state will be transferred from medi-hotels to a dedicated health facility.
The Old Wakefield Hospital is being considered as the site for the new coronavirus isolation program, with police providing security.
"Staff working at the dedicated facility will not be deployed to other medi-hotels, or high-risk environments, including aged care facilities, correctional facilities or hospitals," Mr Marshall said.
"All staff who are working in the dedicated facility have access to the Hotel for Heroes facility, so that they have the option to rest away from their home."
The proposed hospital facility is part of the Premier's eight-point plan to bring the virus under control in his state.
Once the facility is set up, the Premier said he hopes to gradually resume international arrivals to South Australia for returning Australians.
"We will ask National Cabinet to consider testing all returning Australian citizens prior to their flight, with a view that they must have a negative test result, before boarding," he said.
South Australia recorded no new community cases of COVID-19 today. There are 38 active cases in the state, a woman in her 50s is the only person hospitalised due to coronavirus in South Australia.
There are 29 cases linked to the Parafield cluster, with two international travellers added to the Parafield cluster.
"In the middle of the day yesterday, (we received) the genomic information about those particular cases," South Australia's Chief Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said.
"What this showed was that they had the same strain of COVID as the Parafield cluster.
"They were in the Peppers Hotel, so that immediately let us bring the conclusion that those people had indeed, contracted that not from coming overseas, but actually during their stay at the Peppers Hotel."
Contact-tracing teams are also analysing CCTV footage in an attempt to uncover transmission chains of the virus.
"On the basis of the (CCTV) stills, I can absolutely confirm that nobody was in the wrong place at the wrong time," Dr Spurrier said.
"There are subtle details that they are looking at, they're looking at whether people have touched their mask ... when did they touch another surface."
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