A second man has been fined over an alleged self-isolation direction breach in the state\u2019s Hunter region.
\nOn Tuesday (14 December 2021), officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District received information from NSW Health in relation to a 20-year-old man who had been directed to self-isolate at a Rutherford property from Wednesday 8 December 2021, as he was a close contact of a positive COVID-19 case.
\nIt\u2019s understood the man subsequently attended a licensed premises on Wharf Road later that evening.
\nHe has since returned a positive test to COVID-19 and is currently self-isolating.
\nPolice spoke with the man today (Thursday 16 December 2021), before he was issued a Penalty Infringement Notice (PIN) for $5000 for the offence of Fail to Comply with Notice Direction s 7\/8\/9 \u2013 COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A second man has been fined over an alleged self-isolation direction breach in the state\u2019s Hunter region. On Tuesday (14 December 2021), officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District received information from NSW Health in relation to a 20-year-old man who had been directed to self-isolate at a Rutherford property from Wednesday 8 December 2021, as … Continue reading “Second man fined for allegedly breaching self-isolation direction \u2013 Hunter region”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}