Fri 13 March 2020:
A senior cabinet member in Australia’s government who said Friday he is infected with the new coronavirus was pictured last week standing next to Ivanka Trump, Attorney General William Barr and other White House officials.
Peter Dutton, who is Australia’s minister for home affairs, released a statement saying he has been diagnosed with the virus – COVID-19 – and admitted to the hospital, where he is in isolation.
Dutton was in Washington for meetings connected to the so-called Five Eyes security pact, an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Britain and the U.S. White House adviser Kellyanne Conway also appears in the March 6 photo.
Australia has more than 120 cases of COVID-19. Among them: The actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson. The Hollywood couple confirmed on Wednesday that they are in isolation in the country after testing positive for the disease. “We are taking it one-day-at-a-time,” Hanks said in a tweet. He posted a picture of them on Thursday night.
Earlier, Brazil confirmed that a senior adviser to President Jair Bolsonaro who tested positive for the coronavirus was among a group of officials who met with President Donald Trump on March 7. Fabio Wajngarten is Bolsonaro’s communications secretary.
He posted a photo of himself standing next to the U.S. president at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday. Trump has said he “isn’t concerned” about getting tested.
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