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Haja Umu Timbo, Diana Lasu avoid convictions for Qld border breach
Two of the Queensland women who sparked a massive COVID scare after breaching strict border rules last year have escaped convictions.
Instead, Haja Umu Timbo and Diana Lasu received community service orders for lying on their border declaration forms after travelling back to Queensland from Melbourne at the height of the southern state’s second wave.
Brisbane Magistrates Court was told the resulting COVID scare caused a massive spike in testing, costing Queenslanders more than $338,000.
The pair and a third woman, Olivia Muranga, were…
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