Published 19:10 IST, January 12th 2021
Woman walks her husband on a leash to get around, fined for flouting COVID-19 curfew
Officers slapped $3,000 in fines on the couple for violating the COVID-19 protocol after woman was seen walking leash clad husband in downtown area past 8 pm.
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A Canian couple was fined $1,500 (£868) each after y tried to flout COVID-19 curfew as woman walked her ‘husband’ on leash. Cana’s Quebec City h imposed coronavirus curfew effective 8 pm to 5 am in new drastic measures to curb surge of new variant infections. In an exception to rule, residents were allowed to walk ir dogs and or leashed pets. According to Cana’s CTV News, Quebec’s police caught leash-cl husband walking alongside his wife, duo skirted cover rule.
Sherbrooke police came across a ly and her husband who were out for a walk near downtown area past 8 pm curfew. man was wearing a leash around his neck, as couple strolled despite restrictions, department anunced in a statement. ly according to local sources was questioned by officers and she responded, that she was walking her dog on leash. Furrmore, couple argued with police that y were allowed to walk ir dogs after curfew.
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officers slapped total $3,000 in fines on couple for violating COVID-19 curfew and posing risks of spre of injection. Effective January 11, Quebec went under a curfew from 8 pm to 5 am and those flouting rules were liable to a fine up to $1,000 to $6,000. Premier Francois Legault called incident “shocking” in wake of rising infection rates across country.
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Stringent curfew imposed
dressing state press conference, premier said, “ police are important allies in fight against virus.” He ded, “I need police and Quebec needs police to be able to succeed with this shock treatment during next four weeks of curfew.” Quebec’s ministration also anunced that it will maintain official record of people that were caught violating restrictions after a stringent curfew was implemented Saturday night. As per law, people in Cana were allowed to walk dogs on leash only within a kilometer of ir homes after 20:00, police department informed.
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19:12 IST, January 12th 2021