Police have provided an update on the situation regarding a COVID-positive trip from Dubbo to Orange earlier this week.
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"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.
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.
"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."