Queensland Police have charged a woman who allegedly pretended to be a doctor and issued hundreds of fake “exemption certificates” for COVID testing, vaccinations and mask wearing.

Detectives on Wednesday executed a search warrant at an address in the Gold Coast suburb of Labrador, where a 45-year-old Darling Heights woman was arrested.

She has been charged under Health Practitioner Regulation National Law with five counts of taking a title indicating a person is a health practitioner.

The woman is the first person in Queensland to be charged with this offence.

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“It will be alleged that the woman told police she has issued approximately 600 false medical ‘exemption certificates’ in relation to COVID,” police said in a statement.

The woman is scheduled to appear at the Southport Magistrates Court on October 28.