UPDATE 28 April, 2020
has undertaken a risk assessment to determine the Barossa is no longer a region of high COVID-19 risk and has recommended that restrictions should be the same as are currently in place across the rest of South Australia.
SA’s Chief Public Health Officer Professor Nicola Spurrier confirmed the changes in a letter to The Barossa Council Mayor Bim Lange.
Mayor Lange has praised the community for their efforts to stop the spread of the Barossa cluster, describing today’s announcement as “an exceptional outcome for the community”.
As of April 26, a total of 42 cases from the area had been notified to ‘s Communicable Disease Control Branch.
The majority (39 cases) were associated with two tour group clusters from the USA and Switzerland – these clusters were not linked and represented two separate introductions of COVID-19 from international tourists to the Barossa Valley.
Two cases were close contacts of a known case, and one case was a local transmission with no identified close contact. The most recent date of symptom onset amongst all 42 cases was March 31.
