SA COVID-19 Advice Update November 20

UPDATE NOVEMBER 20:

Given the updates from SA Health today, AusCyclingSA is delighted to announce that exercise is allowed outside the home in your family groups or people that you reside with. Stay at home orders except for exercise (and essential work and all of the rest of the directions) continue to be in place for all of Saturday and lift at 0001 Sunday morning. At this point we will broadly return to the restrictions that were put in place on Monday, November 16.

As such, AusCycling has updated our COVID-19 Advice which will be in place from 12:01 Sunday morning. AusCycling SA events, training and coaching sessions are still suspended, with an expected end date of December 1.

AusCycling SA's current COVID-19 Advice is available for download here.

UPDATE NOVEMBER 18 (SUPERSEDED ABOVE):

After today’s update from SA Health it should be no surprise to any of our members or any part of the cycling community that a direction not to leave your house for exercise absolutely includes solo outdoor riding for recreation or training. We would ask that all members respect these directions and ride only on the trainer (or in your own backyard) for the time being from midnight tonight. Again, a reminder that this hard 6-day lockdown could save us not only weeks or months of a Victoria-style lockdown, but also hundreds of lives if we can prevent the widespread case numbers that we’ve seen interstate and overseas.

UPDATE NOVEMBER 16 (SUPERSEDED ABOVE):

With regard to the updates today to both the advice from SA Health regarding the Coronavirus and also the current Emergency Declaration and Directions in South Australia, AusCycling SA recognises that our advice to our members requires updating, too.

From midnight tonight, all event and training session sanctioning is rescinded for at least the next 14 days (up to and including the 1^st of December), and as such there will be no sanctioned events, training or coaching sessions under AusCycling SA for this period, and any events that were scheduled to be held during this time must be postponed or cancelled. All Club and State fixed cycling venues are to be closed, awaiting further instruction. This will be updated as more information is made available from SA Health as to events which are currently scheduled for the remainder of the year.

Beginning immediately (though the updates to the directions take place from midnight tonight), we no longer recommend for group riding to take place as normal. Similar to when we were in Stage 1 restrictions earlier this year, AusCycling SA recommends that any outdoor recreation be done with only your immediate family unit. A reminder that while going out for a group ride in the outdoors can seem safe, an hours-long interaction with someone on a bunch ride could still lead to a transmission of the virus.

It is important to note that the next two weeks are an important step in the response to this cluster of infections in the community. The more responsibility we take immediately, the quicker the spread of the virus will be stopped, and the sooner we can go back to the lesser restrictions that we’ve been so lucky to experience for so long while the rest of the country and the world lives through this pandemic with us. We ask that the cycling community and our membership lead by example in this and refrain from group rides for the next two weeks.