{"id":38063,"date":"2020-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/coronavirus-could-be-eradicated-south-australia-says-sa-health\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T09:47:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T09:47:24","slug":"coronavirus-could-be-eradicated-south-australia-says-sa-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/coronavirus-could-be-eradicated-south-australia-says-sa-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Could Be Eradicated In South Australia, Says SA Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>SA Health\u2019s Dr Michael Cusack tells FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David &amp; Will South Australia could \u201cbreak the chain\u201d of COVID-19 transmission and \u201cget rid\u201d of the virus from the state.<\/h3>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Dr Cusack said on Tuesday:<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<blockquote><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cNow that things have moved on and we are seeing these low numbers of cases I think we are starting to think that this is something that we can potentially get rid of in the state, excepting that there will no doubt be people coming across borders and so forth where the disease may still arrive and it might blow up again in pockets.<\/span>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u201cBut with the amount of testing that we\u2019re able to do and the contact tracing that we can follow up with even if we were getting small pockets of outbreaks we would hope to be able to keep ahead of the virus and isolate people who have been in contact even before they\u2019ve become symptomatic and that way we break the chain of transmission of the virus.\u201d<\/span>\n<\/blockquote>\n&nbsp;\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">LISTEN HERE:<\/span>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/david-will\/david-willpodcast-14april2020\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>&#13;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA Health\u2019s Dr Michael Cusack tells FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David &amp; Will South Australia could \u201cbreak the chain\u201d of COVID-19 transmission and \u201cget rid\u201d of the virus from the state. &nbsp; Dr Cusack said on Tuesday: &nbsp; \u201cNow that things have moved on and we are seeing these low numbers of cases I think we are [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,144],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-38063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","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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