Live breaking news: Cabramatta man jailed for brazen train trip to Armidale

A 31-year-old man has been jailed for breaching public health orders and travelling by train from Sydney to Armidale in NSW's north. 

A 31-year-old man has been jailed for breaching public health orders and travelling by train from Sydney to Armidale in NSW's north.

 

Police say the man left his Cabramatta home on Sunday, before using public transport to travel via Newcastle to the New England region.

He was arrested at Armidale Railway Station and has been sentenced to two months prison after a hearing in the Armidale Local Court yesterday.

New England Police Chief Inspector David Cooper said that "people who blatantly breach our stay-at-home orders will be dealt with strongly".

Fears for regional NSW are escalating, after a stack of public health alerts were issued for potential exposure sites across Dubbo, Mudgee and Broken Hill.

Of NSW's 452 new cases today, 18 were from the Western NSW local health district, with confirmed infections in the state's west now past 100.  

"This is a really critical time in Bourke and I know across the rest of the region," Western NSW Local Health District chief executive Scott McLachlan said today. 

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