Sydney Covid outbreak: Fury after infected tradie leaves home
Anti-lockdown protesters in George St, Sydney on July 24. Photo / Getty Images
Sydney Covid outbreak: Fury after infected tradie leaves home Fri, 30 Jul 2021, 7:41PM
A Sydney tradie who was prevented from attending last weekend s anti-lockdown protest later left home after testing positive to coronavirus, police say.
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller made the bombshell announcement during today s press conference where Premier Gladys Berejiklian also revealed 170 new community infections.
He initially said that the man had gone to work on a building site.
However, NSW Police later clarified that is what they were initially told during a compliance check at the 35-year-old man s house following his positive test result.
An infected Sydney tradie who ignored border bans and travelled to Queensland where he triggered a major Covid scare has shown no remorse.
George Thompson, 26, was fined almost $10,000 for flouting lockdown laws and only escaped a criminal charge because police wanted to deal with it immediately .
He insists he had no clue he had Covid and when asked if he understood why people were angry he said that reaction was fair enough but he wasn t fazed by what others thought of him.
George Thompson (pictured) was supposed to be isolating in Sydney but instead took a cross-border holiday into Queensland
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