People who deliberately try to spread the coronavirus to Australia's healthcare workers could spend life in prison, the federal government has warned.
People who deliberately try to spread the coronavirus to Australia's healthcare workers could spend life in prison, the federal government has warned.
Reading legal advice from the Attorney-General’s department, Mr Hunt said the deliberate transmission of COVID-19 was an offence under the general criminal laws that apply in every state and territory. "In addition, those same state and territory criminal laws also make it an offence to cause someone else to fear that they are having transmitted to them the virus, for example by coughing on them."Mr Hunt said two people have already been charged in the ACT for"precisely this type of behaviour”.
Some hospitals have now warned staff not to wear their uniforms in public to avoid attracting unwanted attention to and from work."We will be cracking down on them across the jurisdictions,” he said.
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