A 25-year-old Beaconsfield woman who was a close contact from the Perth Mess Hall event at the centre of a COVID-19 cluster, has been charged by police and gone into isolation after allegedly visiting a fast-food outlet in the Busselton area before she had got a test for the virus.
The woman has been charged with two counts of failing to comply with a direction under Western Australia’s Emergency Management Act and her test results were still pending as of Saturday afternoon.
Waves breaking at Yallingup beach in WA’s South West.Credit:lleerogers
Police say the 25-year-old went to the Mess Hall event on December 19, which has now been linked to six community COVID-19 cases, and was notified by the Department of Health on Thursday she needed to get a test and isolate until getting a negative result.
Instead of self-quarantining, police will allege the woman bought fast-food at a drive-through shop in the Busselton area before she had got COVID-19 test.
Police say on Christmas Eve the Department of Health told the woman she was a close contact and needed to keep isolating but allege she then went to Yallingup Beach, in breach of an emergency direction, when the results of her COVID test were still unknown.
The woman has been summonsed to appear in court at a later date.
Note: The exposure list in WA is constantly updated, for the most up-to-date version visit the Healthy WA website.
The number of COVID-19 cases linked to a French backpacker, known as Case 1133, has gone up to seven with two more people who were at the Perth Mess Hall on Sunday testing positive overnight.
Perth Mess Hall contact charged in Yallingup for alleged isolation breach
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