Premier Steven Marshall says the state’s COVID-19 results have been “tracking down not tracking up” in the last seven to 10 days and he is “cautiously optimistic”.
Mr Marshall told FIVEAA Breakfast’s David & Will on Monday:
“I’ve got say when I look at the results we’ve had in South Australia over the last seven to 10 days they’re tracking down not tracking up.
“When you look at some of the things on television about other parts of the world where there’s exponential growth, so it’s going 20, 40, 80, 160, 320 that’s exponential growth.
“We’ve probably been tracking reasonably down over the last seven to 10 days probably with an average in the 30s. Yesterday was 12. Out of 344 notifications around the country we had 12 of them in South Australia.
“I’m cautiously optimistic but we’ve got to do everything we can to make South Australia the very best state in Australia in terms of coming through this virus.”
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Mr Marshall also said SA would “put restrictions in place that are sustainable” after the Prime Minister announced a limit of two people on public gatherings.
“We certainly want people to make sure they are doing everything they can to social distance and that’s the advice from the national cabinet,” Mr Marshall said. “No more than two people in terms of gatherings, that excludes families of course…
“We’ll continue to look at all these issues. We’ve got to remember that Sydney and Melbourne are different places than pretty much the rest of Australia, so we’ve got to put restrictions in place that are sustainable and they’re going to work for the longer term because we’re not putting these restrictions for one or two weeks they’re going to be in place for months.”
