Canberra's first Covid case, patient zero, who sent ACT into lockdown revealed as Commonwealth games wrestler Cedric Nyamsi

Cedric Nyamsi, 27, is a Commonwealth Games wrestler and has lived in Canberra for the past three years, after migrating from Cameroon.

"Because of me, Canberra is in lockdown. But I didn't do anything wrong. Someone gave it to me too," Region Media quoted him as saying.

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He said he had not left the ACT in the past three months and was working with contract tracers.

"I don't want anyone to die because of me," Mr Nyamsi reportedly said.

"I'm very fit. I thought if I got it, it would be like a light fever, but it's very bad."

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He said he fell ill on Tuesday night, took ibuprofen but was sent home the next day from work, where he is employed as an apprentice builder.

He said his boss told him to see a doctor, but when he went to the GP was sent to a testing facility.

"I was too sick to even go for testing," he said.

"I took some medication and lay down. About 4pm, I started to feel better, so I went to Exhibition Park for testing, but it was closing, so I went to a walk-in centre at Weston Creek."

Mr Nyamsi said he has been in isolation since receiving a positive result.

Cedric said he visited a doctor's surgery, Exhibition Park, the Weston testing centre and is staying in a hotel. However, none of these locations are listed as exposure sites on the ACT Health website.

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According to a Stockade Training Centre profile, he is an international wrestler who represented Cameroon in the 2018 Commonwealth Games

"Known for his imposing physique, he is an intelligent and strategic wrestler, possessing an exceptional work ethic combined with a friendly, outgoing manner," the website says.

"Cedric is a passionate coach, able to demonstrate and teach both fundamental skills and advanced techniques. He has a fun but strict teaching style, aimed at bringing the best out of his pupils."

Earlier, Chief Police Officer Neil Gaughan warned that anyone who posted recriminations and comments on social media against the man could be in breach of federal laws.

"I see there is a lot of [social media] focus on one individual, I think that's really dangerous," the police chief said. "It's not a kangaroo court.

ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr on Friday again refused to be drawn on how the Gunghalin man in his 20s caught the virus, declining to confirm or deny speculation that he had become infected after travelling to Sydney.

"We will address those sorts of issues later," Mr Barr. "That is entirely unimportant at the moment because it will do absolutely nothing to address the situation that we face today, which is about identifying close contacts, testing people that we need to get tested and advising of the exposure sites.

"There is a time for those issues, but not today."

Asked if ACT authorities were any closer to establishing the source of the man's infection, and whether it might have involved a breach of public health rules, Mr Barr said: "We are still working through the details there".

He left the Fiction Bar in Bunda Street at 4.45am on August 8. QR code check-in tracing then showed he attended the Church of Pentecost on Irving Street, Woden, at 10.30am for a two-and-a-half-hour session.

He then visited Freedom Furniture, TK Maxx and Windsor Smith shoes store at the Canberra Outlet Centre in Fyshwick between 2pm and 3.25pm.

He spent more than five hours at Fyshwick's Stockade martial arts and boxing gym on Monday morning, before attending for another two hours on Tuesday.

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