British tourist is slammed for DEFYING health orders and flying to tourism hot spot AFTER testing positive for coronavirus
- A woman, 36, has been slammed for flying to Hamilton Island with coronavirus
- She had been in Australia less than a week when she was diagnosed in Sydney
- Queensland health authorities tracked her down on a Hamilton Island beach
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A British tourist has been slammed for flying to a tourist hot spot shortly after being diagnosed with coronavirus.
The woman, 36, who had been in Australia less than a week, tested positive for the illness in Sydney before travelling to Hamilton Island, in Queensland’s Whitsundays.
NSW health authorities contacted their counterparts in Queensland, who tracked the woman down on a beach on Sunday, the Courier Mail reports.
She spent the night in isolation on the isle before being taken by boat to Mackay, where she is currently in hospital.
The UK national is understood to have told health authorities that she did not understand their instruction to self isolate upon receiving her results.
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