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Most current coronavirus-related restrictions across Greater Sydney will be extended for another week despite no new local cases of the virus.
NSW recorded zero new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on Saturday from more than 18,000 tests.
There were an additional six cases in returned travellers in hotel quarantine.
NSW recorded no new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night. pic.twitter.com/3Y8Kv4ZwlR NSW Health (@NSWHealth) May 9, 2021
NSW Health says it remains unsure how an infected east Sydney man caught the virus, which shared the same genomic sequencing as a returned traveller from the US in quarantine.
11:17 EDT, 10 May 2021
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A Sydneysider who was dubbed BBQ Man after going on a shopping spree while unknowingly infected with Covid is a high-flying businessman.
Apollo Global Management managing director Tom Pizzey travelled across Sydney last weekend, visiting four separate BBQ stores over the space of a few hours.
The Australian Financial Review identified the boss of the global investment manager firm as the first locally acquired case of the double mutant Indian mutation of the virus. His wife tested positive to Covid a day later on Thursday.
There is no suggestion by Daily Mail Australia Mr Pizzey broke any Covid-19 restrictions during his visits to the Sydney venues.
Health authorities are investigating a potential transmission of COVID-19 within a quarantine hotel in Sydney.
Seven returned travellers who were being quarantined on the 12th floor of the Adina Apartments Hotel in Town Hall were all found to have the same COVID-19 viral sequence.
NSW health authorities are investigating a potential transmission of COVID-19 among returned travellers at the Adina Apartments Hotel in Town Hall.
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The seven people were from two family groups who arrived from different countries and on different days.
However, they stayed in adjacent rooms in the quarantine hotel.
“The cases have previously been counted as overseas-acquired cases in NSW Health’s daily COVID-19 reporting. This classification will be reviewed pending further investigation,” Stephen Conaty, director of population health at the South Western Sydney Local Health District, said on Saturday.