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On Wednesday in South Australia, the Australian state of Adelaide as its capital, began a six-day lockdown after 36 cases of coronavirus infection were detected, including the first case of local transmission since April. The confinement, however, will end today, early: because it was discovered that one of the people infected with the coronavirus had lied about how he was infected.
According to what he had told the contact tracing agents, the authorities believed that there had been a cluster, that is, a single major transmission episode of coronavirus. In fact, the sequence of infections detected can be explained in another way, and the epidemic in the Australian state is currently less severe than previously thought.
At a press conference, South Australian Prime Minister Steven Marshall made it clear that the decision to order the emergency shutdown, and that if the truth were known immediately there would be no need. The lie was a man who works at an Adelaide pizzeria, the Woodville Pizza Bar. He initially told the contact tracking who had interviewed him that he was just a customer of the pizzeria. Therefore, the health authorities had concluded that he had been infected for a very short time and that therefore it was likely that at Woodville Pizza Bar a cluster infections, which could be at the origin of many other cases not yet detected. In fact, it is almost certain that the man was infected by a colleague of his at the pizzeria, a security guard who also worked at Peppers Waymouth, one of the Adelaide hotels used to quarantine the infected.
The lie was discovered because an employee of the contact tracking Particularly scrupulous, he had been suspicious of the man’s story and decided to ask him other questions. It is not known why he lied and it is unclear whether he will suffer any repercussions for his lie. South Australian Police Chief Grant Stevens said he lied to police contact tracking it is not a crime. However, Stevens announced, a special team will be tasked with investigating the matter and finding out if the man has violated any laws. Stevens also said, responding to a reporter’s question, that police will be alert to the possibility that Woodville Pizza Bar has safety concerns due to resentment from Adelaide residents.
the emergency shutdown it was supposed to last until Tuesday and affected 1.7 million people in South Australia. It had very strict rules: all non-essential businesses had closed, as well as schools, and both outdoor exercise activities and dogs were prohibited. Schools will reopen on Monday and tomorrow up to 100 people will be able to attend religious services. On Friday, 19,000 coronavirus tests were carried out across South Australia and a single person, who was already in fiat isolation due to a family member, tested positive.
It had already happened that in Australia a person lied to employees contact tracking causing concern in the authorities. In October, a truck driver from Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, waited two weeks before saying he was in Shepparton, another city in the state, when he was already infected with the coronavirus.
In the rest of Australia, however, the situation is under control at the moment: in the state of Victoria, no new cases have been detected and there have been no deaths from COVID-19 for 21 consecutive days.
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