Adelaide COVID cluster: QLD, NT, Tasmania and WA borders now shut to SA

South Australia has been effectively locked out of half the nation over a growing COVID-19 cluster in Adelaide’s northern suburbs.

Queensland has become the latest state to shut out travellers arriving from South Australia.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced that Adelaide would be deemed a COVID-19 hotspot from 11.50pm on Monday.

She follows in the footsteps of Northern Chief Minister Michael Gunner, who said the risk from the new outbreak was too great to Territorians to allow the…