After months of no COVID-19 cases outside of hotel quarantine, South Australians learned of some worrying developments on Sunday.
Key points:
A woman in her 80s tested positive to the virus at the Lyell McEwin Hospital emergency department in Adelaide.
It soon became apparent the woman had caught the virus from her daughter, a cleaner at the Peppers medi-hotel in the Adelaide CBD, one of several sites across the city where international travellers undergo isolation.
By Monday, most of the woman’s extended family were considered to be COVID cases, and contact tracing was underway at dozens of sites across the city.
By Tuesday, the cluster had expanded to include two security guards who had worked at the Peppers hotel.
Mr Harvey said the investigation would be “thorough and fair” despite the “high emotion” involved.
He would not comment “any other behaviour that may be alleged or suspected” in relation to the owner or managers of the pizza bar, except that it would be investigated.
Premier Steven Marshall said police would look at “all and every avenue to throw the book at this person”.
He said the task force was set up to “to look at all and every aspect of the evidence that was provided and the consequences that have ensued from there”.
“There have got to be consequences for this person,” Mr Marshall told ABC Radio Adelaide.
Police are yet to reveal what they understand to be the man’s motivations.
However, they are prepared for recriminations.
A police car remains parked outside the Woodville Pizza Bar.