Sydney removalists blame language barrier after being accused of spreading COVID-19 to the regions
A trio of Sydney removalists who were labelled thoughtless after travelling to regional NSW despite allegedly receiving news of a positive test, have spoken out.
Crystal WuDigital Reporter
July 19, 2021 - 10:41AM
Three Sydney removalists who allegedly travelled to western NSW while positive with COVID-19 insist they are not to blame.
Iraqi immigrants Roni and Ramsin Shawka, 27, and Maryo Shanki, 21 were charged on Saturday for allegedly failing to comply with NSW s public health orders.
The trio were travelling from Sydney s West Hoxton to Molong on Thursday morning when one of them received a call saying he had tested positive for COVID-19.
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The mother of two removalists who travelled to regional NSW while infected with Covid has mysteriously died in her home after also contracting the virus.
Health authorities confirmed on Monday that a woman in her 50s died after contacting Covid, making her the fifth person in NSW to die from the Delta variant outbreak which has so far infected 1,340 people.
Emergency services were called to the Thursday Place address in Green Valley about 9.15am
Her sons, Roni and Ramsin Shawka, 27, were identified along with Maryo Shanki, 21, and a fourth man, 49, as the removalists who travelled to regional NSW with Covid.
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“We know that the delta variant is highly transmissible, and it is unfathomable to think that, with all the public information and health warnings, people could so blatantly ignore the health orders, said Police Minister David Elliot.
But let s give these men the benefit of the doubt for a second. They weren t NRL players gathered for a party. They weren t politicians with entire teams working under them conveniently forgetting about the rules.
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