South Australian businesses hit hard but glad to reopen after unnecessary coronavirus lockdown

There are concerns some South Australian businesses will struggle to recover from the unnecessary disruption caused by the three-day coronavirus lockdown that is due to be lifted at midnight.

Others, though, are just glad to be able to reopen tomorrow.

Business SA said it had received hundreds of calls from business owners in recent days.

Chief executive Martin Haese said some form of government compensation payment should be explored.

“Especially those that are dealing in perishable goods, they’ve been saying well we’ve had to throw a lot of our stock, a lot of our inventory, in the bin…