Clifton woman broke isolation after visiting confirm Covid contact site
A woman who was meant to be in isolation after coming into close contact with a person infected with the Delta strain has left quarantine and travelled to Toowoomba. Here’s a list of the others caught ignoring the lockdown restrictions in the region.
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A woman who was ordered into isolation after coming into contact with a confirmed Covid case drove from the Dalveen to the Gatton to buy hay for her animals.
The decision cost her $1378 after police picked her up in Clifton on Friday, August 6.
Darling Downs City Patrol Acting Inspector Greg Wheeler said the woman showed blatant disregard for the Covid lockdown rules by leaving not only quarantine, but entering a non-locked down area.
“No longer is it an education situation,” he said.
“The public has had 12 months of education.”
The officers hit her with a fine for failing to comply with Covid-19 public health direction from the chief health officer.
It comes as police harden their stance with people who break the lockdown rules.
Break the rules and you will be fined.
This includes anyone living in the Lockyer Valley, which is one of 11 local government areas that will be subject to the Covid lockdown until at least Sunday.
“In the last 24 hours we have given 41 warnings and told 41 people that they must return to their addresses,” Acting Insp Wheeler said.
“We have conducted 45 random business inspections in the lockdown area and intercepted 219 vehicles in the lockdown area.”
About noon on Thursday police located an Esk woman in Toowoomba.
Her travel was deemed non-essential and she was hit with a $1378 fine.
On the same day police located a man who had travelled through Caloundra, Nambour, Brisbane and Warwick before he was picked up at Glengallan, on the New England Highway.
Acting Insp Wheeler said the man was en route to Chinchilla.
He was also fined $1378.
A Gatton man was fined $207 after he refused to wear a mask when police intercepted him on Railway Street in Gatton at 8am on Friday.
“If someone is without a mask we always offer a mask first,” A/Insp Wheeler said.
“It is only if people blatantly disobey the direction to wear one that we fine them.
Finally a Brisbane man was arrested and held in the watch house after police located him at a Toowoomba home while executing a search warrant at 11am on Friday.
He was fined $1378 on the spot and is due to be charged with a raft of yet to be determined offences.
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