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A Sydney woman who travelled to Byron Bay to work on the reality TV show 'I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!' and then tested positive for Covid-19 is facing criminal charges.
The fully vaccinated 31-year-old had a permit to travel to the area for work-related purposes only.
But police say she breached the conditions of her permit when she went to pubs and shops in Byron Bay and Kingscliff over the weekend.
A Sydney woman who travelled to Byron Bay to work on the reality TV show 'I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!' and then tested positive for Covid-19 is facing criminal charges
Police allege she failed to check in to those venues using QR codes.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Wednesday welcomed the news, brushing off criticism from her backbench MP Catherine Cusack that the government should not have allowed the woman into Byron in the first place.
'(This person was) there only to work, but what they did was breach the health orders,' she said.
'The system worked. It was people doing the wrong thing and I'm really
