Police working with transport after COVID trip from Dubbo to Orange

Assistant Commissioner Geoff McKechnie of NSW Police said they they are working with transport officials in the region after a woman who was knowingly infectious caught a bus between the two cities.

"The buses have continued to operate around the region and there are reasons for that," he said.

"People do need to travel for health appointments that don't have other transport available.

"We are working with transport on that to make sure that bus and that bus driver in particular are taken care of."

He added the situation was a "complex issue."

"Police are working through all that. Police understand she is still in hospital at Orange and we'll sort through that as it goes," he said.

"The priority has been making sure any contacts that she made obviously have been taken care of through the health protocols.

"Just bad decision making to jump on a bus like that and head off for whatever the reasoning might have been. We've seen a fair bit of that, people making these choices to do things that really, probably can wait."

The incident was first reported on Wednesday, and it is now understood numerous staff members working in Orange have been forced into isolation as a result.

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