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A mother-of-three has caused a huge Covid scare in a major NSW regional town after boarding a train while positive with the virus and travelling to the area - forcing 17 passengers and six crew members on board into hotel quarantine for a fortnight.
Officers from the NSW Mid North Coast received reports on Thursday night that a 22-year-old woman who returned a positive Covid-19 test result was not isolating and had caught a train with her three children from Strathfield in Sydney's inner west bound for Coffs Harbour.
Strathfield has recorded 260 Covid-19 cases since the outbreak in June and is one of the 12 local government areas of concern in Sydney under strict lockdown restrictions.
Police stopped the train at Kempsey, about 100km south of Coffs Harbour, at about 10.40pm where the woman and her children were removed and taken by paramedics to a health hotel in Port Macquarie for quarantine.
Police received reports that a Covid-positive mum wasn't isolating and had hopped on a train from Strathfield in Sydney (pictured) with her three children bound for Coffs Harbour
This led to 17 passengers and six crew members
