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PETALING JAYA: A 26-year-old Malaysian woman and her partner have been charged with attempting to sneak into the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) from Covid-19-affected Victoria.
According to the UK’s Daily Mail, the woman, a fruit picker, was already heavily pregnant when she and her partner first tried to cross the border with a group of eight other Malaysians on 17 August.
The group was detained at a border checkpoint in Euston, NSW, and told police they had traveled from Victoria to look for work.
The police turned them away and told them they would have to fly to Sydney and be quarantined in a hotel for two weeks at their expense.
But 10 days later, police were alerted to a couple who allegedly crossed state lines illegally, and the woman went to a hospital in New South Wales to give birth. Her partner accompanied her.
After giving birth, the woman was discharged from the hospital and she and her partner received Court Attendance Notices for not complying with Covid-19 regulations.
Both the woman and her partner will appear in Coffs Harbor Local Court on September 14.
The other eight were fined, according to the report.
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