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.
The BBQ Man at the centre of Sydney s new coronavirus scare spent all Saturday afternoon finding the perfect grill to cook up a peri-peri chicken feast.
The man from Woollhara, in the eastern surburbs, who tested positive to the Indian variant of the virus on Wednesday, trekked across Sydney s inner west and western suburbs shopping for grills.
Finally he found the one he wanted at Barbeques Galore, and drove out to Casula in Sydney s west to pick it up at 4.30pm.
The next day he visited the Meat Store in Bondi Junction where he bought peri-peri chicken at $17.99 a kilo, according to the butcher.
New South Wales has recorded no new cases of coronavirus but restrictions including mask-wearing will remain in place until Monday morning.
A Sydney couple infected by the double mutant Indian variant of the disease tested positive on Wednesday and Thursday and are isolating at home.
Officials are scrambling to find out how they caught the virus, which has the same genomic sequence as a traveller from the US in hotel quarantine.
New South Wales has recorded no new cases of coronavirus but restrictions including mask-wearing will remain in place until Monday morning. Pictured: Commuters on Friday
NSW Transport workers hand out face masks at Town Hall rail station in Sydney
A man in his 50s tested positive to the virus on Wednesday but contact tracers have still not determined how he contracted the virus. The man lives in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, had not travelled overseas and does not work in a hotel quarantine, border or health role.
The man’s wife tested positive on Thursday but nine other close contacts have not tested positive as of Friday morning.
Sewage testing also revealed on Thursday that there were fragments of the virus in Sydney’s inner west, in a catchment area covering Dulwich Hill, Marrickville, Summer Hill, Lewisham, Ashfield, Haberfield, Petersham, Lilyfield and Leichhardt.
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A full list of venues of concern visited by the two cases is available at latest news and updates. People are urged to check the NSW Health website regularly for updates.
Advice for a number of venues of concern, which the public were alerted to yesterday, have been updated as risk assessments have been completed.
NSW Health was notified yesterday evening that fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 have been detected in the Marrickville Sewage Network.
This catchment includes about 42,000 people and takes sewage from the following suburbs – Dulwich Hill, Marrickville, Summer Hill, Lewisham, Ashfield, Haberfield, Petersham, Lilyfield and Leichhardt.