Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton Contracts Coronavirus

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By AAP
March 13, 2020COVID-19
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Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton Contracts Coronavirus
Australia's Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton announces measures against online sexual exploitation on March 5, 2020 during a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton is in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus.

Dutton said after waking on Friday morning with a temperature and sore throat that he was tested for COVID-19 and was told in the afternoon it was positive.

“I feel fine and will provide an update in due course,” he said in a statement.

Dutton recently returned from Washington where various countries have decided to collaborate with big tech companies to stop the online sexual abuse of children, The Epoch Times reported.

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