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ACT police expand COVID-19 border checkpoints as people caught ‘trying to sneak through’ from hotspots
ACT police have established a second COVID-19 border checkpoint to ensure those travelling into Canberra are permitted to do so.
Key points:
- ACT Policing said they were seeing fewer people without an exemption arriving at the border since Saturday
- More than 2,700 people are in quarantine in the ACT — the majority of whom have returned from NSW hotspots
- Some motorists complained of the long wait-time to enter the ACT over the weekend, due to the roadside checks
Police have been stationed on the Federal Highway, where they checked 4,483 incoming vehicles over the weekend.
Of those, 147 were turned away while 217 returning ACT residents were directed to quarantine.
Today police established a second checkpoint — on Sutton Road, to question…
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