Covid 19 coronavirus: Australia reacts to ‘chaotic’ shutdown of SA amid coronavirus outbreak

Already more heartbreaking stories of the Covid-19 pandemic are emerging as South Australia enters a brief and abrupt shutdown.

While many are embracing the six-day lockdown to overcome the coronavirus outbreak in the state, others fear it is too much for them.

One woman said her daughter’s surgery had been canceled, that they could not hold a funeral for her grandfather and could not comfort her grieving mother.

When another woman shared her fears as a vulnerable South Australian, one person commented: “This is what politicians are doing to some of the most vulnerable in our communities – making them feel even more vulnerable and terrorizing them with hysterical Covid lockdowns. they are causing can last a lifetime. “

Another person said the state’s reaction was exaggerated.

“Some possibility of confusion with South Africa, which yesterday had 1987 cases,” they wrote on Twitter.

“Adelaide only had 5 Covid cases today with 34 active cases. Wow, what an overreaction! Obviously, there is no Normal Covid.”

Most people have praised SA’s reaction to the Victoria outbreak, saying it is what it takes to contain the spread quickly.

Public Health Director Professor Nicole Spurrier said the lockdown was being implemented because the particular tension in the state was rapidly spreading to the next “generations.”

South Australians reacted in panic by buying and stocking up on alcohol to get through the next six days, and people weren’t happy about it.

Police initially put bottle shops on the banned list, before adding it to their essential services list yesterday.

A bottle store owner told ABC News that his usual daily sales of $ 3,000 had risen to $ 35,000 – that’s an increase of more than 1,000 percent.

Some people have made the most of a bad situation, looking forward to six days at home.

One woman shared how her cousin quickly moved their wedding forward, before the lockdown went into effect at midnight.

And some are reassured that celebrities also have to take refuge.

Zac Efron was seen shopping at the Adelaide Mall, shopping for some boots on the weekend.

South Australian Prime Minister Steven Marshall provided an update on the coronavirus situation in the state this morning.

Marshall told ABC News Breakfast that it was “very likely” that the state would make the masks mandatory as South Australia faces a particularly difficult strain of coronavirus.

“We have a particularly difficult strain of the disease, which shows no symptoms for people who become infected,” Marshall said.

“We also know that of course it is very contagious and we think it is possibly transmitted from surfaces.

“The other thing we know is that the incubation period for this particular strain is very short and can be shortened to 24 hours.

“So for all those reasons, the very clear advice from public health officials yesterday was to put this pause, this circuit breaker, in place so that we could stay on top of contact tracing and get as many people as we can on that. quarantine situation as quickly as possible, so that we can ease those restrictions in the rest of our state. “