SA Health has just revealed that Professor Nicola Spurrier has tested positive for COVID-19.
After attending multiple press conferences this week, Professor Spurrier has been struck down by COVID-19.
SA Health’s statement reads as follows:
“South Australia’s Chief Public Health Officer, Professor Nicola Spurrier has today, like many South Australians, tested positive for COVID-19.
Professor Spurrier is pleased that she is fully up-to-date with her vaccinations, including the winter 4th dose and is currently experiencing extremely mild symptoms.
She would like to emphasise the importance for everyone to seek COVID testing even with the most minimal symptoms and encourages mask wearing to prevent unknowingly passing on infection.
Professor Spurrier will conduct her duties as Chief Public Health Officer from home until the conclusion of her isolation period.”
This announcement comes after the Emergency Management Council met this morning to discuss where South Australia sits in terms of the third Omicron wave currently spreading through the state.
The meeting saw the council review the current COVID-19 modelling which predicts that the state will hit the peak of the current Omicron wave within the next week with hospitalisations set to hit over 400.
The state’s Emergency Management Council has responded to growing concerns around the pressure this current wave will have on SA’s health care system by pausing some non-urgent overnight elective surgeries to free up beds in public hospitals around the state.
For more information about how to stay healthy this flu season, head to SA Health’s website.
If you have any COVID-19 symptoms, no matter how mild, please seek testing as soon as possible.
Find your nearest testing site at www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/COVIDtesting.
For more information visit https://www.covid-19.sa.gov.au/ or call the SA COVID-19 Information Line on 1800 253 787
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