Adelaide cluster puts casuals in spotlight

The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee has been asked to look at whether hotel quarantine workers having second jobs is safe.

Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech say their COVID-19 vaccine appears to protect 94 per cent of adults over the age of 65. Source: Polina Tankilevitch from Pexels

South Australia has asked the nation's expert medical panel to investigate whether hotel quarantine workers should be allowed to have second jobs.

Two coronavirus-infected workers at Adelaide's medi-hotels were also pulling shifts at a suburban pizza shop, sparking fresh concerns about casual employment.

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