New Zealand authorities have said that they will press charges against a coronavirus patient who escaped quarantine in Auckland and went shopping at a supermarket, AP reported.
Air Commodore Darryn Webb, the head of managed isolation and quarantine, said the 32-year-old man escaped through a fence at the Stamford Plaza hotel and was gone for just over an hour before returning. The man later tested positive for the virus.
Webb said the man was a New Zealand citizen who’d recently returned from India and his actions were “completely unacceptable.”
