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South Australia will be in lockdown from 6pm tonight after recording a further two new cases of Covid overnight, bringing the total for the state to five.
From 6pm on Tuesday night, the entire state will enter 7 days of lockdown with only five reasons for people to leave her homes.
On Monday the state recorded a fourth case of Covid-19 as the state began a round of tough new restrictions and authorities race to contain an outbreak of infections amid a growing list of exposure sites.
The cases now include an 81-year-old man who entered the country from Argentina, his daughter and another two men.
Premier Steven Marshall told Adelaide radio 5AA ahead of an official briefing on Tuesday the fourth case identified overnight was a man who's a close contact of the elderly man and was already in quarantine.
Mr Marshall also said more testing sites would open in Adelaide on Thursday amid long queues at testing facilities on Monday and early Tuesday.
The outbreak has plunged thousands of people into quarantine with the list of more than a dozen exposure sites including at least four major shopping centres in Adelaide's north and northeastern suburbs.
'We only have one chance to get this right. Our focus from day one has been to go hard and to go early to minimise the level of disruption,' Mr Marshall said on Monday.
'We've got to respond quickly.'
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