US woman faces hefty fine after causing coronavirus outbreak in Bavaria
Source: DPA/The Local
13 September 2020 16:16 CEST+02:00
Despite showing symptoms of the coronavirus, a 26-year-old US citizen went out partying in the Alpine resort of Garmisch thus starting a wave of infections in the town.
Local authorities said they were still unsure what consequence the woman should face.
"This must be investigated," said city spokesman Stephan Scharf on Sunday.
Authorities believe that the outbreak was started by one a so-called superspreader, a 26-year-old American woman who visited several pubs in the town at the foot of the Alps and infected several people in the process.
Read more: https://www.thelocal.de/20200913/us-woman-faces-hefty-fine-after-causing-coronavirus-outbreak-in-bavaria
hlthe2b
(102,197 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,751 posts)LogicFirst
(571 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,364 posts)They are imposing a fine of $900k on an American who thought he was entitled to violate C-19 regulations.
irisblue
(32,955 posts)IronLionZion
(45,409 posts)and then decide to stay in Canada and have a good time spreading COVID around.
Grokenstein
(5,721 posts)A Kentucky man accused of breaking Canada's coronavirus rules twice could be forced to pay a $569,000 fine ($750,000 Canadian), spend up to six months in prison, or both.
John Pennington of Walton, Ky., was initially fined $910 ($1,200 Canadian) on June 25 after an employee at a Banff hotel where he was staying suspected he was violating Alberta's coronavirus regulations, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Tammy Keibel told NPR.
Pennington was told to stay in his hotel until leaving the next day. But the following afternoon, police spotted his car at a local tourist attraction, and he was arrested and charged with violating Canada's Quarantine Act.
Canada closed its border to Americans on March 21 to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, but Americans can still enter the country if they are going to or from Alaska. Some Americans are reportedly using the loophole to cross the border into Canada and stay there.
More at link. Calgary Herald also has the story, and naturally a few covidiots in the comments section who want a boycott of Canada now. How dare they defend themselves by not letting a TROO MURIKAN have his way!!
Warpy
(111,227 posts)""The lady had symptoms, came to the test station and was told to stay in quarantine because of the symptoms. But she did not do so," says Scharf. The 26-year-old had just returned from a vacation in Greece. "
That twit spent money to get there so she felt entitled to go pub crawling, they owed it to her. 26 is old enough to have a little more sense.
napi21
(45,806 posts)Not everything gets finer with age!
3Hotdogs
(12,364 posts)Some people are entitled.
Illumination
(2,458 posts)idiot?...