Tree lopper tests positive for Covid while flouting Sydney's lockdown laws with his work mates after a separate group of arborists was fined $33,000 for breaking restrictions TWICE and trying to avoid detection by changing their business name A 59-year-old tree lopper tested positive for Covid-19 in the Lake Macquarie area Police attempted to find the five more arborists at a Charlestown apartment But the men had left, and were issued $1000 PINs for breaching health orders Another group allegedly removed all company identification from vehicles They then allegedly went door-to-door after already being issued $33,000 fines
One of six tree loppers who were fined for blatantly breaching public health orders in NSW has tested positive for Covid-19.
NSW Police said that officers attended a holiday rental property on Yanko Street in Toronto, Lake Macquarie, on July 20.
Police received reports that a group of men had travelled from western Sydney, a Covid hotspot, to find tree lopping work.
One of six tree loppers who were fined for breaching public health orders has tested positive to Covid-19 (stock)
At the property six men aged between 17 and 59 told police they had been in the Lake Macquarie district before stay-at-home orders were put in place by the NSW Government across greater Sydney.
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