A 32-year-old woman has been charged with assault after allegedly spitting at Auckland Transport staff.
File photo. Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
Police say they arrested the woman in connection with the incident, which happened last week on a train at Britomart station.
She is appearing at the Auckland District Court today.
A 42-year-old man has been sentenced to 14 days in prison for spitting at a police officer in Rotorua.
New Zealand's Covid-19 transmission rates have stayed low, and the country has been given a week's notice to prepare to move out of the level 4 lockdown.
An Auckland man has been charged with attempting to infect three police officers with Covid-19 by spitting on them.
A Dunedin man has been arrested for spitting at a shop worker, and after multiple breaches of the Covid-19 alert level four restrictions.
Security guards, nurses and frontline staff at hospitals and other essential services are being spat at by angry members of the public while trying to do their jobs during the lockdown.
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