A TikTok comedian whose run of predicting New South Wales' daily new Covid-19 cases came to an abrupt halt has bizarrely claimed Premier Gladys Berejiklian changed Monday's figures in a bid to discredit him.
Social media personality Jon-Bernard Kairouz became an overnight celebrity by accurately forecasting how many cases there would be in NSW for five straight days.
His run ended on Monday amid claims NSW Health had deliberately fed him incorrect data to identify his source.
Mr Kairouz has repeatedly insisted he uses complex maths equations to predict the new figures and doesn't rely on a mole inside the health department.
He incorrectly forecast on Sunday night there would be 109 cases the next day, which differed from the 98 cases Ms Berejiklian announced at 11am Monday.
Mr Kairouz claimed health officials may have tweaked the figures to prove him wrong, and confidently claimed there would be 76 new cases recorded on Tuesday.
He also claimed a public servant had been wrongly sacked by the NSW Government over his videos.
Social media personality Jon-Bernard Kairouz became an overnight celebrity by accurately forecasting how many cases there would be in NSW for five straight day
'Some have said that the numbers were changed to discredit the maths,' he told Nova's Fitzy & Wippa show on Tuesday morning.
'Nothing to do with your calculations?' co-host Michael 'Wippa' Wipfli asked him.
'As I said five from six really speaks for itself. I’m pretty certain it was six from six,' Mr Kairouz said.
'So you think Gladys may have lied just to trump you?' Wippa asked.
'I believe so,' the comedian replied.
Mr Kairouz also said he still backs his 'maths to the hills' as he accused the state government of putting out the wrong figures to 'trump' him.
'That is quite sad because they’ve sent booby-traps for a local comedian who is doing maths,' the western-Sydney based comic said.
Mr Kairouz has claimed health officials may have tweaked the latest figures to prove him wrong after he inaccurately forecast Monday's figures for the first time in six days
Mr Kairouz incorrectly forecast on Sunday night there would be 109 cases the next day - when there were actually 98 new infections on Monday
Pictured: NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Mr Kairouz's incredible run ended on Monday amid claims NSW Health had deliberately fed him incorrect data to identify his source
'Some poor bastard has been sacked and I feel for him because I was just doing arithmetic and they’ve set this high-level surveillance on him.'
He also denied another theory that he was using the federal government's Coronavirus Australia app to calculate how many cases there would be in NSW.
'I’m being completely upfront with you guys, I wasn’t getting it from either [the app or an inside source],' he said.
Health Minister Brad Hazzard was on
