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
Health experts have three days to work out how Covid spread from a traveller
Testing has linked the cases to a returned US traveller - but there is a missing link
The positive case is a man in his 50s, but he had no contact with quarantine
Restrictions are set to be lifted on Monday at 12.01am - but link must be found
He visited 14 suburbs in Sydney while infected with Covid-19 last weekend
Masks are mandatory, dancing banned and only 20 people are allowed in a home
The Sydney couple who have mysteriously tested positive to coronavirus are infected by the double mutant Indian variant of the disease.
The B.1.617 strain was identified in the subcontinent in October, with two key mutations to the outer-spike protein that helps the virus bind and enter cells.
The couple have the second of three subvariants known as B.1.617.2. Scientists are not yet sure if the strain is more infectious or more deadly than original Covid, but many fear it probably is.
The Sydney couple who have mysteriously tested positive to coronavirus are infected by the double mutant Indian variant of the disease. Pictured: A Sydney commuter