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There’s a woman in Corner Brook, N.L., who’s been arrested twice this week for refusing to stay in her house after returning home from outside the province.

She’s 53 and was placed in the jug after her second arrest. Now she is waiting there to go to court — probably not the greatest place for someone who should be in at home quarantine — to answer to charges under that province’s Public Health Protection and Promotion Act.

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There hasn’t been a story as drastic here in London, but there are tales around town of people dipping their toes outside the social distancing boundaries and defying what’s been recommended to keep us safe during the pandemic.

On Wednesday evening, the London police were called to what was thought to be a large gathering in the Orchard Park area. Const. Sandasha Bough said it turned out to be four or five people in a backyard at a home where they all lived.

There’s anecdotal evidence of people home from March break out grabbing some groceries and bored kids crawling around city-owned playground equipment, which has been officially closed.