Mumbai: Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has tested positive for coronavirus on Friday.
“This morning I woke up with a temperature and a sore throat. I immediately contacted the Queensland Health Department and was subsequently tested for Kovid-19. I was advised by Queensland Health this afternoon that the test had returned positive,” he said in a statement.
Earlier today, Dutton did not participate in his usual Today Show interview due to a “stomach bug”. Dutton recently returned from a tour of the United States.
During his visit, the minister met officials from the US, UK, Canadian and New Zealand in Washington on 6 March.
There have been 156 positive cases of the virus in Australia. Australian officials expect the virus to spread rapidly after the onset of the winter of the Southern Hemisphere.
The WHO has declared the novel coronavirus as an epidemic with over 130,000 confirmed cases globally and more than 4,600 deaths as of the latest
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