By Alesha Capone
Police and Australian Defence Force personnel have commenced a month-long blitz in Wyndham to ensure people are obeying the state’s coronavirus regulations.
Police said they would be conducting spot checks and maintaining roadblocks 24 hours a day.
“We will be at shopping centres, in public spaces, patrolling the roads and responding to any reported breaches,” police said in a statement on the Wyndham Police Eyewatch page.
“Any and all detected breaches of COVID-19 restrictions will be dealt with a zero tolerance approach.”
There are only four legal reasons to leave home under the pandemic lockdown, including shopping for food or other essential items, seeking medical care and working or studying, if you cannot do so from home.
On Saturday, police confirmed they had fined a man who drove from Werribee to Melbourne’s CBD for a “specific butter chicken”.
The man was fined $1652 for breaching the coronavirus restrictions.
On Saturday, Channel Seven reported that employee at an Australia Post delivery centre in Hoppers Crossing Delivery Centre had tested positive for the virus.
“While it appears that he was not at work while infectious, our teams at the facility have also been informed and in line with government guidelines, close contacts have been advised to self-isolate for 14 days,” an Australia Post spokesperson said.
The centre has completed a deep clean, and also confirmed the employee had not dealt directly with customers.
Also last week, five people were fined $1652 each for disobeying coronavirus lockdown restrictions, after police found the people inside a Truganina home, which was being used as an illegal brothel.
Earlier this month, 11 people who attended an illegal party at a short-term rental apartment in Point Cook were also fined.
