Health
Epidemiologists say six-day lockdown enough to contain SA outbreak – Sydney Morning Herald
Experts warned it was too early to determine if the strain of virus in the state was a faster and more virulent strain.
Professor Bennett said SA was so far dealing with an outbreak where all the cases detected had been linked back to one returned traveller.
The idea of the six days is just to give the Health Department enough time that even if a case slips through the net, and there is someone who is a more casual contact who is positive and very mildly or not symptomatic at all, that they wont spark another grass fire, it will just whittle out, because they wont have anyone to infect,” she said.
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