A Sydney woman who breached COVID-19 restrictions by partying in Newcastle before testing positive to the virus and sparking a lockdown has been fined $4,000.
Police stopped Sulafa Ageeb at Cardiff, near Newcastle, in late July and told her to return to Sydney.
Instead, the 21-year-old and her friend Josephine Lado, 20, later attended a party in Shortland, where they pretended to be asleep in a car when police were called.