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.
An urgent coronavirus warning has been issued for Woolworths in Sydney s eastern suburbs with hundreds ordered into isolation.
Those who visited the supermarket in Double Bay on Monday, May 3 between 10.45am-11am have been urged to get tested and isolate immediately.
The same instructions have been given to anybody who visited the store on May 4 between 4.05pm - 4.15pm.
NSW Health said casual contacts needed to isolate until they received a negative test and should continue to get swabbed if symptoms appear.
NSW recorded another day of no new locally-acquired cases, as hope grows that the state has avoided a widespread outbreak
Flights between New Zealand and New South Wales will be back on after two positive Covid cases in Sydney put a temporary halt on the trans-Tasman travel bubble.
Planes will be permitted to touch down in New Zealand from 9:59pm (AEST) on Sunday, meaning Australians headed to the land of the long white cloud will not have to undergo hotel quarantine.
But the Kiwi government has warned that anyone who has been to venues listed as Covid hotspots by NSW Health within the past 14 days at the specified times, will not be allowed to enter the country.
Flights between New Zealand and New South Wales will be back on after two positive cases in Sydney put a temporary halt on the trans-Tasman travel bubble. Pictured a family reunites at Wellington Airport on April 18, 2021
Gladys Berejiklian has lashed out at New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden for cutting off flights from NSW over just two Covid cases.
The NSW premier said the snap flight ban was an overaction after the wife of an infected man in his 50s also tested positive to the virus.
The short-term travel pause started on Thursday at 11.59pm and will last for at least 48 hours until the scale of the potential outbreak is more clear.
New Zealand has paused the trans-Tasman bubble for 48hours after NSW records two Covid cases (pictured: people embrace at Auckland airport)
The trans-Tasman travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand has been burst by two Covid-19 cases in Sydney (stock image)
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.