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South Australia records 4506 new COVID-19 cases, wants more jabs for kids

South Australia has recorded 4506 more cases of COVID-19, and a man in his 90s has died with the virus.

A total of 336 of the new cases were recorded from home RAT tests, officials said.

There are 176 people in hospital including 18 in ICU and two on ventilators.

Like other states, SA will start vaccinating five to 11-year-old's this week, with 12,000 already booked in.

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A quiet Rundle Mall in Adelaide, Australia.

Health Minister Stephen Wade said the government wanted to get children back to school in three weeks as scheduled.

However, he said discussions would be held this week, with returning to home learning possible.

He admitted parents "needed to make choices about their own children," if they had not yet been able to get them vaccinated.

He said parents should keep revisiting the SA Health website if they had not been able to get an appointment yet.

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Mr Wade said GPs and pharmacists in the state are asking for more supplies for children, saying they didn't have enough delivered yet by the Commonwealth.

"Orders were not at the level some GP's and pharmacists expected," he said.

"It's an important time for us to work together to maximise the number of doses provided to South Australian children," he said.

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Children have their second Pfizer dose, eight weeks after the first.

Mr Wade said there are 30,000 doses for children in the state, and 12,000 will be given out this week at state hubs.

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Snowstorm kills at least 21 tourists at Pakistani resort

At least 21 people are dead in northern Pakistan after thousands of vehicles became stranded in a blizzard.

All the roads in Murree are now clear, a police spokesman for the Islamabad police said, and officers have evacuated thousands of people who were stuck in the area, northeast of the capital.

The tourists, who were stuck in a traffic jam, suffered from a "food crisis" after being stranded, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said in a video statement on Saturday.

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In this photo provided by the Inter Services Public Relations, army troops take part in a rescue operation in a heavy snowfall-hit area in Murree, 45 km north of the capital of Islamabad, Pakistan.

Mr Rashid added earlier that the government had called army and civil armed forces for emergency rescue operations for "nearly a thousand" vehicles that were stranded.

Snow began to fall on Tuesday night and continued at regular intervals, leading to an influx of thousands of tourists, Reuters reported.

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But many families became stranded on roads due to the number of visitors, and with local media reporting that over 100,000 vehicles entered the hill station.

In this photo provided by the Inter Services Public Relations, army troops take part in a rescue operation in a heavy snowfall-hit area in Murree, 45 km north of the capital of Islamabad, Pakistan.In this photo provided by the Inter Services Public Relations, army troops take part in a rescue operation in a heavy snowfall-hit area in Murree, 45 km north of the capital of Islamabad, Pakistan.https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1479752168768999429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said he had ordered an inquiry into the incident, adding that there was "unprecedented snowfall" and that a rush of people traveling to the area "without checking weather conditions caught district admin unprepared."

"Shocked & upset at tragic deaths of tourists on road to Murree," he said on Twitter.

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