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South Australia’s premier, Steven Marshall, also held a press conference this morning, announcing a reintroduction of his state’s hard border with New South Wales.
From 12.01am tomorrow morning (1 January) the hard border with “very few exceptions” will come into effect. Marshall said:
As of one minute past midnight tonight, we will be putting a hard border back in place with New South Wales.
Only South Australians returning, people relocating permanently or essential workers will be exempt from this arrangement and they will still need to – for the South Australians returning or those people relocating – need to do 14 days of mandatory self-isolation.
Kerry Chant is asked what her new year resolution is.
She said she hasn’t thought of one yet but that “most people can imagine what it will be”:
I think we rapidly bring this cluster under control. We achieve no community transmission, but we need to remember we’re always continually under threat and so we are never going to go back to normal.
We might get a little bit more normalcy once we have all the population vaccinated, but Covid potentially will change our lives at all times and it may be something like the flu where we have to learn how to manage it in – with the tool of having a vaccine. For literally years to come, and years.”
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