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Coronavirus: Pizza shop worker's lie plunges 1.7 million people into strict lockdown

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An entire state was plunged into lockdown because a pizza shop worker lied to officials. South Australia was placed into its harshest coronavirus lockdown yet after contact tracers were wrongly led to believe a man was infected with a highly contagious virus with a much shorter incubation period.

In a shock announcement today, state Premier Steven Marshall said the six-day strict lockdown would be lifted earlier-than-expected, at midnight on Saturday, as the virus was not as contagious as initially thought.

Marshall reiterated it was still a "dangerous" cluster with 25 infections and about 4,500 close contacts in quarantine. A security guard at a quarantine hotel, who also worked part-time at the Woodville Pizza Bar, in the state capital

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