NSW records no new Covid cases despite fears missing link with BBQ man has yet to be found

NSW has recorded no new regionally acquired cases of Covid for the fourth day in a row.

However well being bosses are involved the virus remains to be being transmitted ‘unrecognised’ throughout Sydney as they scramble to discover town’s ‘missing link’ Covid-19 case. 

NSW chief well being officer Dr Kerry Chant stated it was yet to be established how a man in his 50s from Sydney’s east dubbed ‘BBQ man’ develop into contaminated with Covid. 

Apollo International Administration managing director Tom Pizzey travelled throughout Sydney final weekend whereas unknowingly contaminated with Covid, visiting 4 separate barbecue shops over the house of some hours. 

There may be no suggestion by Each day Mail Australia Mr Pizzey broke any Covid-19 restrictions throughout his visits to the Sydney venues. 

He examined constructive to the virus on Wednesday and his spouse a day later. No different shut contacts have develop into contaminated to date. 

Genomic testing has linked the man’s case to that of a returned traveller from the US however how the virus was transmitted between them has stumped authorities.   

‘(The native case’s) contact with the infectious individual should have been very fleeting,’ Dr Chant stated on Monday. 

NSW chief well being officer Dr Kerry Chant (pictured) stated the missing link between a returned traveller from the US and a man from Sydney’s east was yet to be found 

She warned Covid might nonetheless be circulating in the neighborhood with out folks realising, including ‘we’re not out of the danger interval’.  

‘We’re involved there are chains of transmission in the neighborhood which might be unrecognised,’ she stated.   

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian stated authorities had trawled by CCTV and spoke to ‘numerous folks’ of their quest to learn the way Mr Pizzey grew to become contaminated.  

‘The priority is, if it is one or a number of folks, who’re these missing hyperlinks it was a really fleeting assembly,’ Ms Berejiklian stated.

‘That implies there might be a excessive degree of contagion.’

The window of transmission is probably going between April 26, when the traveller arrived and quarantined on the Park Royal Lodge in Darling Harbour, and April 29, after they have been moved to particular well being lodging after testing constructive on April 27.

Powerful new restrictions for Higher Sydney – together with masks indoors and on public transport – have been  prolonged for every week on Sunday (Wynyard Station pictured)

A nurse collects Covid-19 check samples on the Bondi drive-through testing clinic on Might 6, with an enormous improve in testing numbers anticipated thanks to the 2 new cases

The US traveller was staying within the Darling Harbour lodge, which isn’t one of many 14 suburbs listed in Mr Pizzey’s intensive seek for the proper out of doors cooker on Saturday and Sunday.

Restrictions launched on Thursday in response to the couple’s constructive assessments and meant to finish on Sunday night time have been prolonged for an additional week, with Ms Berejiklian saying the measures would stay to ‘forestall a super-spreading occasion’. 

Family gatherings stay capped at 20 folks, masks utilization stays necessary on public transport and indoor venues equivalent to theatres and aged care properties, and singing and dancing stays principally banned.

Hospitality patrons are nonetheless not permitted to drink whereas standing. 

On Monday, NSW’s first mass Covid-19 vaccination hub at Sydney Olympic Park, which can have the capability to administer 30,000 Covid-19 jabs per week.

The NSW authorities expects the Homebush hub can have the capability to It’s going to be staffed by lots of of medical personnel and function six days every week from 8am to 8pm in a specially-fitted business constructing.

Ben Shepherd from the RFS is pictured receiving his Covid-19 vaccination on the Sydney Olympic Park Vaccination Centre on Monday

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian (left) and Well being Minister Brad Hazzard (proper) are pictured on the state’s first mass Covid-19 vaccination hub at Sydney Olympic Park

For its first two weeks, the hub will be open to folks in classes 1a and 1b earlier than increasing to anybody over 50 from Might 24.

Ms Berejiklian stated she hopes the state can now give out 60,000 vaccines every week, serving to to increase Australia’s fledgling rollout.

‘The mass vaccination centre will be in a position to administer up to 30,000 vaccines per week as soon as it’s up and working, meaning round 5,000 vaccinations per day,’ Ms Berejiklian stated.

‘The Centre, mixed with the greater than 100 NSW Well being run clinics and hubs, means NSW Well being can administer round 60,000 vaccines every week throughout the State.’