The New South Wales health minister has strong feelings about the Australian Financial Review’s decision to identify the Sydney man who came forward with Covid symptoms. ‘I think it’s absolutely appalling,’ Brad Hazzard says. ‘No journalist should think it’s OK to go naming a patient … it’s the quickest way to destroy the confidence of all of us.’ The state’s chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant also expresses her disappointment, saying the disclosure ‘was not in accordance with the wishes of the gentleman’
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