Woman found guilty of fatally infecting neighbor with COVID-19

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A 54-year-old woman in Austria was found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 nearly three years ago, according to a Friday report.

On Thursday, a judge sentenced the woman to four months’ suspended imprisonment and fined her $886.75 for grossly negligent homicide. The Associated Press (AP) reported that local media said the punishment was the second time the woman has received a pandemic-related conviction in a year.

Due to Austrian privacy rules, the names of the deceased and the defendant have not been released.

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We need Sherlock Holmes & Poirot to resolve this. “The Case of the Stairwell Curse”.

>Statements from the deceased person’s family were presented during the trial this week that said the two neighbors made contact in a stairwell on December 21, 2021. The defendant allegedly knew she had COVID-19 at that time, but she denied this and said she believed she had bronchitis. She also denied meeting with the neighbor in the stairwell.