The Opposition leader says he will continue to work from home while isolating despite being forced off campaign trail for a week
Anthony Albanese says he intends to push ahead with his campaign despite being forced to isolate at home for seven days after being diagnosed with Covid.
Albanese suggested his illness had been caught by a routine screen, and his symptoms thus far were mild. “I am feeling fine so far – and thank everyone for their well wishes”.The positive diagnosis is a significant disruption to the Labor campaign, and it comes as Albanese was recovering from a messy opening week.
Labor’s campaign director Paul Erickson contracted Covid in the first week of the campaign, and had to work remotely. Strategists have war gamed various scenarios about how the campaign would need to adapt to accommodate a leader sidelined from physical campaigning. Albanese has been accompanied in recent days by a number of senior staff serving as his travelling party, as well as frontbenchers, including Tony Burke.
He also delivered a scheduled address to the Lowy Institute on the “arc of autocracy” via a video hookup. Labor subsequently accused Morrison of being slow to invoke a national emergency declaration in relation to the flooding disasters.
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