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Health
Tim Dornin

More hospital beds in SA winter strategy

South Australia has added 80 more hospital beds as COVID-19 and flu infections continue to bite. (AAP)

An extra 80 hospital beds will be opened across Adelaide's hospital network along a new acute assessment centre as part of a winter strategy to deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and a rise in flu infections.

The extra beds are on top of the 180 opened in the past few weeks after the new Labor government took what it called urgent action to strengthen the hospital network.

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