Coronavirus, Employment

In reply to Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (7 April 2020).

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier): I refer the honourable member to my answer to the same question in the House of Assembly on 29 April 2020 at 2:16 pm:

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan-Premier) (14:16): I can provide a general answer. I think one of the great things about the health response in South Australia is that we have extraordinarily good contact tracing capability. This is a unit of government that is headed up by Dr Louise Flood. She heads up the Communicable Disease Control Branch. It was originally quite a small capability within SA Health. It has expanded very significantly. In fact, I think at the moment it sits at around 290 people, with a further 150-person surge capacity.

What this really does is it provides great certainty for anybody who contracts the COVID-19 virus that we can do the analysis in a very short period of time to determine how and when they acquired this illness. I think this clears up this issue. We don't need to have this presumption of where it's been determined because we do have, in this case, in this instance, the perfect information in very quick time.