South Australia will lift its border restrictions with Victoria on December 1, Premier Steven Marshall has announced.
"We will completely normalise our border arrangements with Victoria and this will be a huge relief for many people who have been adversely affected by these border restrictions," he told a press conference this morning.
South Australia has also announced a loosening of restrictions for funerals and weddings.
From next Tuesday, funerals in the state will be allowed up to 150 mourners.
The 150-person limit at weddings will remain, but dancing and stand-up consumption will be allowed.
Restaurants, pubs and other similar businesses will also have eased restrictions on how many patrons they can accommodate.
There will be no absolute limits on how many people are allowed, as long as there is no more than one person per four square metres indoors.
Outdoors, it will be one person per two square metres.
All venues will be required to have a QR code in place.
Community sport will also resume from Tuesday next week, while home gatherings will remain limited to 10 people.
Chief Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said the home gatherings remained limited because of how many people had caught coronavirus from friends and family.
"We will definitely be reviewing this once we get closer to Christmas Day," she said.
There have been no new cases of coronavirus in South Australia in the past 24 hours, she said.
"One woman unfortunately remains in hospital but I've been told that she is stable," Dr Spurrier confirmed.
"An amazing 12,322 tests done yesterday - an amazingly high number."
People who attended certain shopping centres at certain times need to monitor for symptoms and get tested, South Australia's Chief Medical Officer has said.
"Even mild symptoms, so feeling a bit down or tired, a slightly itchy nose, scratchy throat, a bit of a headache even, a bit of an upset tummy," Dr Nicola Spurrier said.
"Anything at all and you've been in these locations, get tested."
The locations are:
The Kilkenny Arndale shopping centre last Sunday from 11am to 11.30am, or Sunday, November 15, from 11.30am to 12.30pm.
Port Adelaide Plaza on Friday November 13 from 6.40pm until 9.30pm, or Sunday November 15 from 3pm to 3.30pm.
Security guard exposure
South Australian health officials are looking at alternative ways to check on people in hotel quarantine without exposing security guards to the risk of infection.
Chief Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said a security guard became infected with coronavirus while sitting in a hallway in a quarantine hotel.
"We are looking at the ventilation, particularly in the corridors where our security guards are situated," she said.
"We know that COVID-19 is mostly droplet spread but you can also have smaller droplets and become an aerosol, and that combination can become concentrated if the ventilation is poor.
"We are looking at alternative ways of having security and having CCTV footage, just to try to minimise the amount of exposure that our security and other staff have in those particular areas."
