A man from Minitonas, who was originally fined for not self-isolating while sick with COVID, has been told he can scrap the ticket.
On August 19th, Curtis Rodgers went through a drive-thru testing site after developing symptoms of COVID-19 and tested positive four days later.
He says he couldn’t fully understand the testing site employee’s instructions through their PPE telling him to go straight home and stopped to run an errand before going home.
Rodgers says he didn’t leave home until he was told by public health that he’d recovered. He was then surprised when public health officials and police showed up to give him a fine on September 2nd.
The province says the ticket has been withdrawn because additional evidence became available, but they won’t provide any more details.
This was the first time the province fined anyone for breaking the self-isolation orders since they introduced the new orders in late August.
