
EXPERT REACTION: South Australia to begin 6-day "circuit breaker" lockdown
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South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has this afternoon announced the state will begin a 6-day lockdown from midnight tonight. Schools, restaurants, sport, weddings and funerals are amongst those to be closed or banned. The measure, described as a "circuit breaker", is designed to stop a growing cluster of COVID-19 cases in Adelaide's north-west linked to a medi-hotel. Below Australian experts respond.
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Professor Jeremy Nicholson is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Health Sciences and Director of the Australian National Phenome Centre at Murdoch University