{"id":38044,"date":"2020-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/two-week-testing-blitz-has-been-launched-sa\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:00:00","slug":"two-week-testing-blitz-has-been-launched-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/two-week-testing-blitz-has-been-launched-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"A Two-Week COVID-19 \u201cTesting Blitz\u201d Has Been Launched In SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A two-week COVID-19 \u201ctesting blitz\u201d will be launched in SA from Thursday.<\/h3>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">According to a statement from Premier Steven Marshall:<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<blockquote><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">From Thursday, any South Australian who has fever or chills in the absence of an alternative illness, or an unexplained acute respiratory infection including a cough, sore throat or shortness of breath, will be able to be tested for COVID-19 as part of the blitz\u2026<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">SA Health\u2019s Chief Public Health Officer, Associate Professor Nicola Spurrier, said with the appreciation both internationally and locally of mildly symptomatic cases, the testing blitz will identify unknown cases that may not have been discovered through contact tracing.<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cOur experience with the Adelaide Airport cluster and evaluation of similar clusters interstate is that some of the cases we identified had quite mild symptoms,\u201d said Professor Spurrier.<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cAlthough our expertise in contact tracing is world-class, we want to ensure that absolutely every case of COVID-19 in South Australia is identified to provide the best protection to individuals, their families, friends and the community.<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cOver the next two weeks, any South Australian who has a fever or respiratory symptoms consistent with coronavirus, no matter how mild, is welcome to attend one of our COVID-19 clinics, or their GP, for assessment and testing.<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cWe have already taken significant steps to minimise the spread of coronavirus locally, and the testing blitz is yet another way of reassuring the community that we are picking up all cases of COVID-19.&#8221;<\/span>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FStevenMarshallMP%2Fvideos%2F360286268252284%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>&#13;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-week COVID-19 \u201ctesting blitz\u201d will be launched in SA from Thursday. &nbsp; According to a statement from Premier Steven Marshall: &nbsp; From Thursday, any South Australian who has fever or chills in the absence of an alternative illness, or an unexplained acute respiratory infection including a cough, sore throat or shortness of breath, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-38044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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