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Health minister tests positive to covid

Health minister Rachel Stephen-Smith.

ACT Minister for Health Rachel Stephen-Smith has tested positive to COVID-19.

Ms Stephen-Smith announced that she had been infected with the virus in a social media post this afternoon (May 23).

“I’ve done a lot of RATs over the last few weeks. This morning I had cold symptoms and the RAT came up positive, so I’ll be working from home for the next week!,” the Health Minister tweeted.

The ACT recorded 622 new cases of covid today. 91 people in Canberra are currently hospitalised with the virus.

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