The number of positive coronavirus cases in a new SA cluster has leapt to 17 overnight.

Professor Nicola Spurrier told FIVEAA Breakfast’s David & Will on Monday:

“Working very hard over the last 24 hours. We’ve tested an extremely large number of people. This is a very, very serious situation unfolding in Adelaide at the moment. We now have 17 cases associated with this cluster, so a significant increase. That reflects the amount of testing SA Pathology did yesterday.”

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Fifteen of the cases are part of the original family cluster that was revealed on Sunday. Two more cases are linked.

Two of the cases work in aged care and another case works at Hungry Jack’s at Port Adelaide. That Hungry Jack’s has now been closed.

The cases are the first community transmission in the state since April 15.

It comes after SA recorded three COVID-19 cases in one day on Sunday, the worst SA ­cluster to date, all stemming from a medi-hotel on Waymouth St in the CBD.

Authorities have so far closed Hungry Jack’s in Port Adelaide, Mawson Lakes primary and preschool, Thomas More College at Salisbury Downs and Parafield Plaza supermarket.