South Australia to end lockdown early

JERUSALEM AFP, 20 Nov, 2020-  South Australia’s six-day “circuit-breaker” lockdown will be cut short, officials said Friday, blaming a pizza parlour worker who misled contact tracers about how he contracted the virus.   

Premier Steven Marshall indicated a tough lockdown for the state’s almost two million people would end late on Saturday, at least two days earlier than planned.   

Marshall said a man had claimed to have contracted the virus after a brief visit to a pizza parlour hotspot, leaving authorities concerned the strain was much more contagious than originally believed.   

But further investigation revealed he in fact worked part-time at the restaurant and had picked it up from a colleague.