A 52-year-old has been charged with serious assault after allegedly spitting on a nurse at a fever clinic. 9News
Police were called after the man refused to leave the outdoors sector of the Windsor Road restaurant in Kellyville Ridge despite COVID-19 rules on dining. The woman, who was also in the store, started filming him on her mobile.Health Minister Greg Hunt announced this week the deliberate transmission of COVID-19 carries a potential life sentence.
"If someone were to take a step that led to the death of a healthcare worker. If that were a deliberate transmission," Mr Hunt said. " to cause someone else the fear that they are having transmitted to them the virus – for example by coughing on them."
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