A 32-year-old man, who recently returned from India and tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, will be charged with absconding from a managed isolation facility in Auckland to go to a supermarket, according to media reports.
The man escaped through a fenced area from an isolation facility about 6.50 p.m. on Tuesday, the New Zealand Herald reported. He has been sent to a quarantine facility after he was confirmed to have the SARS-CoV-2 virus on Wednesday.
The man, whose identity was not immediately known, came from New Delhi on July 3, it added.
He will be charged and now face up to a six-month jail sentence or a $4,000 fine, the report added.
