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South Australia has reported a fall in new COVID-19 infections with Premier Steven Marshall saying the drop is further evidence the state may have reached the peak in the current Omicron-fuelled outbreak.
Mr Marshall said there were 3023 new infections on Friday, down from 3777 on Thursday.
'These numbers do bob around a bit but this is very significantly under our (3569) seven-day average,' the premier said.
'I'm increasingly hopeful we have got on top of this very dangerous Omicron wave.'
Premier Steven Marshall said the drop is further evidence the state may have reached the peak in the current Omicron-fuelled outbreak
SA also reported six more deaths of people with COVID-19 and an increase in the number of people in hospital to 298 with 33 in intensive care and seven on ventilators.
The state's active cases were reported at 31,582, a fall of 6906 in the past 24 hours.
SA Health said genome sampling indicated 95 per cent of SA's new infections were now the Omicron variant.
The premier revealed the latest
