China News Service, November 20th, a comprehensive report. On the 20th local time, the Governor of South Australia, Australia, Marshall announced that because a pizzeria employee who was infected with the new crown pneumonia lied about the route of infection and misled investigators into thinking that the virus is highly transmitted, so The six-day blockade measures will be lifted early.
According to reports, since the 18th, nearly 2 million residents of South Australia have been subject to strict lockdown measures, but Governor Marshall said on the 20th that the lockdown will be lifted on the 21st, about 3 days earlier than originally planned.
On November 19, local time, in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, a restaurant was unattended.
Marshall said that an infected man claimed that he was just a customer of a popular pizza restaurant, misleading the authorities into thinking that the new crown virus was contagious enough to spread through take-out lunch boxes.
But in fact this man is a pizza shop employee.
Marshall said: “One of the close contacts associated with the pizza restaurant deliberately misled our investigation and tracking team.” After finding that the man’s statement was unreasonable, the investigation team followed up and found that he was lying.
The South Australian authorities still emphasized that the lockdown measures were necessary at the time and encouraged pizzeria guests to be tested for the virus.
South Australian authorities ordered the closure of schools, shops, bars, factories, etc. on the 18th, and ordered residents across the state to stay at home and avoid going out.
However, the subsequent tens of thousands of virus tests did not show new cluster infections.