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South Australia has avoided a 'massive disaster' thanks to renewed COVID-19 restrictions with further evidence the Omicron outbreak is stabilising, Premier Steven Marshall says.
SA Health reported 2921 new infections on Tuesday, the lowest daily total for more than a week.
Hospital admissions rose to 211 and 22 people remained in intensive care with four on ventilation.
Premier Steven Marshall says modelling suggests SA's peak on the latest COVID-19 is still to come
One more person died, a woman in her 50s, taking SA's pandemic toll to 19.
Mr Marshall said new modelling on the recent surge suggested the peak was still to come but that local restrictions introduced in late December would significantly reduce the number of cases.
'We've been able to really avoid a massive disaster where the model was predicting tens and tens of thousands of cases on a daily basis,' he said.
'We now see that moderating very significantly
