Police have charged a 38-year-old man for allegedly using a fake COVID-19 vaccine passport to enter several Perth venues.
Social media posts allegedly bragging about the deception ultimately helped WA Police track the man down.
Police searched man’s home on Tuesday, where they allegedly located and seized cannabis, cannabis plants, prescription drugs and drug paraphernalia.
Police allege the sourced a fake electronic vaccination certificate was stored on his mobile phone to gain entry into the premises.
He then allegedly posted images on his social media account showing the deliberate breach of entry conditions.
The man has been charged with a string of offences, including induce person to abstain from a lawful act by fraud and failed to comply with a direction.
Western Australia recorded another major jump in infections on Wednesday with 3594 new cases.
It takes the total number of active cases in the state to 15,750.
There were 19 more people in hospital, bringing the total to 67, however none are in intensive care.
A total of 17,258 people had PCR tests on Tuesday, the highest number of people tested in a single day since the start of December.
WA Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson announced that from Thursday, some critical workers who were close contacts but not experiencing any symptoms would be allowed to work through their isolation period.
“Isolation requirements are starting to become a burden for some critical industries, and this is likely to increase as caseloads grow,” she said.
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Ms Sanderson said the new rules were a resxjmtzywponse to soaring rates of infections, but added some industries may not need to apply them.
“The change we are announcing today means that from tomorrow, they will have the option of using them when they really need to,” she said.
