South Australia has recorded 5,061 new cases of COVID-19, but no further deaths in the latest reporting period.
There are 32,156 active cases of coronavirus in SA, and today is the second consecutive day that new COVID cases have exceeded 5,000.
A total of 175 people with COVID-19 are in hospital, including eight people in intensive care.
Government modelling suggests daily COVID numbers are set to spike to as high as 8,000 cases a day before mid-April.
The total caseload since the start of the pandemic — 257,567 — has increased by over 6,000 since yesterday, significantly more than the 5,061 "new" cases.
SA Health attributed the several hundred extra cases to what it described as a "reconfiguration of the data".
It clarified that the daily total includes new infections diagnosed in the most recent 24-hour reporting period, but not cases from days earlier that have only just been reported.
Earlier today, SA Premier Peter Malinauskas said the government would open more beds across the state's health system to ensure that the state is ready for the anticipated rise in COVID cases.
More than 100 extra available beds have been identified across regional and Adelaide metropolitan hospitals.
That includes 12 within the Royal Adelaide Hospital's intensive care unit.
Mr Malinauskas said the beds were needed to reduce significant strain.
"There is urgency here."
Mr Malinauskas today repeated a plea to South Australians to get a booster vaccine, with a view to reducing COVID hospital admissions.
There were 15,303 PCR tests administered yesterday and 1,745 rapid antigen test results were reported.
