The order states that people must self-isolate after diagnosis, international travel, or possible contact.
The Regina police stated that a 23-year-old woman was handed a $2,800 ticket for disobeying a public health order mandating self-isolation after travel or possible contact with COVID-19.
The order requires people who have had diagnoses of COVID-19 confirmed by a lab, as well as anyone who may have come into contact with COVID-19, to self-isolate for 14 days.
The ticket, the first of its kind issued by the Regina Police Service, was given out on Monday, according to a police news release.
The public health order is in place to slow the rate of infection from COVID-19. Cases in the province reached 253 on Monday, an increase of four from the day before. Doctors in government have been urging people to stay home unless it is necessary to go out. The advice has been to assume the virus is everywhere.
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