The mood in South Australia as the border with Victoria reopens

South Australians are divided as over the reopening to visitors from Victoria, NSW and the ACT.

The borders reopened for fully-vaccinated people at midnight.

But with a lower vaccination rate, wtih 75 per cent of South Australians aged 12+ fully vaccinated, some have concerns about what the reopening will mean for the state.

There have been only four COVID-19 deaths in South Australia throughout the pandemic, and there hasn’t been a locally-acquired case in months, while Victoria has recorded new case numbers over 1000 for the past four days.

“I’m not pretending for an instant that there isn’t some trepidation over here,” co-host of Breakfast on FIVEaa in Adelaide, David Penberthy, told Ross and Russel.

“I think the people who will take advantage of it most obviously and most swiftly will be those families that have been separated by all of this, because you know, Adelaide has a well known brain drain to the eastern states.

“If there’s five cases in a day here, that will be a big story.”

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