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A man in the Australian state of Victoria has tested positive to Covid after completing a stint in South Australia’s hotel quarantine system and returning to his home in Melbourne says South Australia’s Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier.
A man in Victoria, Australia, has tested positive to coronavirus after completing a stint in South Australia’s hotel quarantine system and returning to his home in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said the person who tested positive to coronavirus is a man in his 30s, who returned to Australia on April 19 and completed his hotel quarantine in South Australia.
NSW has recorded no new locally acquired cases of Covid for the fourth day in a row.
But health bosses are concerned the virus is still being transmitted unrecognised across Sydney as they scramble to find the city s missing link Covid-19 case.
NSW chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant said it was yet to be established how a man in his 50s from Sydney s east dubbed BBQ man become infected with the virus.
Apollo Global Management managing director Tom Pizzey travelled across Sydney last weekend while unknowingly infected with Covid, visiting four separate barbecue stores over the space of a few hours.
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.
âItâs not to say that we need to get rid of all the other [precautions] we have in place. Itâs just recognising that COVID transmits from person to person in a number of ways,â Ms Cole said.
âSo you could be washing your hands until the cows come home and you could still get COVID-19, because youâve shared contaminated air.â
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A recent outbreak in Perth that sparked a snap lockdown and was the catalyst for the India flight ban is suspected to have been caused by the virus travelling between guestsâ rooms in a hotel with ventilation so poor it was recommended to be taken out of the quarantine program.
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