Toowoomba woman posed as doctor, issued fake Covid ‘exemptions’
A woman who allegedly pretended to be a doctor and issued around 600 fake “medical exemption” certificates for COVID-19 has been arrested and charged on the Gold Coast.
The fake medical ‘exemption certificates’ allow a person to be exempt from wearing a mask, taking a Covid test, or receiving a vaccine.
Police searched an address in Labrador on Wednesday and arrested the 45-year-old woman, who is from Darling Heights in Toowoomba.
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She was charged under Health Practitioner National Law with five counts of taking a title indicating a person is a health practitioner.
She is the first person in Queensland to be charged with the offence.
The woman is scheduled to appear at the Southport Magistrates Court on Thursday, 28 October.
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