Liberal NSW MP Tanya Davies has tested positive to Covid-19 a week after she attended an anti-vaccination mandate rally outside state parliament.
The Mulgoa MP said she was “feeling great” with few symptoms and made a renewed call from her home isolation for NSW to scrap vaccine mandates for certain workers.
“The blanket Covid vaccine mandate as a condition of employment must come to an end,” she said in a statement.
She went on to deny she had encouraged people to not get vaccinated.
“For anyone that is still being misled or confused about my position, let me make it abundantly clear. I have never encouraged people not to get vaccinated,” Ms Davies said.
“At all times I have encouraged people to take the vaccine and provided information on where people can access the vaccine hubs.”
Ms Davies’ infection was discovered as a result of a mandatory rapid antigen test that the NSW parliament requires as a condition of entering the building.
NSW demands that some workers, included teachers, aged care employees, and health care workers be vaccinated against coronavirus.
Ms Davies has been an outspoken opponent of her own government’s rules, and reiterated her views at the rally last Tuesday.
She was photographed at the Macquarie Street protest holding a microphone in front of a sign that said “do not comply” and a number of upside-down Australian flaxjmtzywgs.
NSW has recorded more than 148,000 positive Covid-19 tests in the past week, including 25,235 on Wednesday.
The case numbers are driven by the highly infectious Omicron sub-strain BA2, which is estimated to make up about 80 per cent of cases.
