NSW health minister condemns media for naming Sydney ‘barbecue man’ at centre of Covid outbreak

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Brad Hazzard says AFR story that identified man was ‘appalling’, and warned it would undermine public health

“It’s the quickest way to destroy the confidence of all of us if we think that some journalist somewhere thinks it’s OK to name a patient who is working with us to make sure the community stays safe. It stinks, actually.”, a man in his 50s from Woollahra – dubbed Patient X – and his wife, also in her 50s, but the couple was not named as is the usual practice.

 

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