New Zealand: man cuts through fence to escape Covid-19 quarantine and buy alcohol
by Teresa Cowie in Wellington from on (#55HWP)
Man in his 50s is the third person to abscond during quarantine, as the nation battles with influx of returning citizens
New Zealand's government has revealed that a third person has absconded from a managed isolation facility, saying a man cut through a fence so that he could go to buy some alcohol.
On Wednesday a man, aged in his 30s absconded from his managed quarantine hotel in central Auckland to visit a supermarket and later tested positive for coronavirus. It came after a woman jumped over a hedge to get out of quarantine. Later, she got lost and asked a passing policeman for directions back to her hotel.
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