When an employee of a pizza restaurant lied to contact tracers in South Australia, it caused a strict lockdown across the Australian state of Australia, officials said on Friday.
South Australia, with a population of about 1.7 million people, began a six-day lockdown on Wednesday to fight coronavirus outbreaks.
At the time, officials believed the outbreak was caused by a highly contagious strain of the virus, Reuters reported.
That’s because one person told contact tracers that he only visited the Woodville Pizza Bar in Adelaide for a short period of time, when in fact he did many shift work at the restaurant. The employee also reportedly worked with another person with the novel’s virus.
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Woodville did not immediately respond to a request from Fox News for comment.
“One of the close contacts attached to the Woodville Pizza Bar deliberately misled our contact tracing team,” South Australian Premier Steven Marshall told a news conference on Friday. “His story was not added. We chased him. Now we know he lied.”
After learning the truth, Marshall announced that the lockout would be lifted as soon as possible, calling the worker’s lie “defamatory behavior.”
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He said: “Just as we have taken immediate action to ban South Austral Australians to protect them, we will take action to remove them more quickly than previously advised.
Officials said on Friday that an employee of Woodville Pizza Bar lied to contact tracers about working in a restaurant, which led to a statewide lockdown in South Australia, officials said on Friday. (Photo by Kelly Barnes / Getty Images)
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Marshall later added, “To say that I’m making a fuss about this person’s actions is an understatement. “The selfish actions of this person have put our entire state in a very difficult situation. His actions have affected businesses, individuals, family groups and it is totally and utterly unacceptable.”
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Despite the impact on the state, Stevens said the employee would not be fined or even lied for lying.
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“The Emergency Management Act requires that people provide information upon request,” Stevens said, according to Dailymail.com. “There is no penalty for failing to answer those questions truthfully.”
