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Australia바카라™s Deputy PM, Barnaby Joyce, paid a hefty A$200 ($151 or Rs 11,159) fine for breaking public health rules as he failed to wear a mask inside a service station on Monday. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, not wearing a mask is considered a massive breach of public health protocols and therefore, repercussions were quite inevitable.
On Monday, the recently reinstated Deputy PM was spotted without a mask at New South Wales town of Armidale. He was paying for fuel at a service station. A member of the public summoned the New South Wales police to investigate the matter.
Armidale, which falls under the ambit of Joyce바카라™s electorate currently is under the compulsion of wearing masks in public indoor areas to put a leash around the transmission of Delta Plus variant of Coronavirus.
Joyce remained unidentified in the police statement. Confirmation was received from the state police that mentioned the issue of a penalty of a similar amount to a 54-year-old man for not wearing a mask inside the service station.
Later, the deputy PM himself confirmed the incident during an interview with Sky News.
"I went into the Caltex service station. I was going to the airport, fuelled the car up with fuel, went in, 30 seconds later, A$200 it cost me because I didn't wear one of these (masks)," he told Sky News Australia on Tuesday.
