Clive Palmer taken to hospital with ‘COVID-like’ symptoms

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Clive Palmer has been taken to hospital with “COVID-like symptoms”, a day after his spokesman said he had tested negative for the virus.

Mr Palmer and his wife, Anna Palmer, were taken from his Sovereign Island home at Paradise Point on the Gold Coast to Pindara Private hospital in an ambulance on Thursday morning.

Clive Palmer at a Brisbane anti-vaccination mandate rally last year.Credit:Cloe Read

Well-placed sources said while Mr Palmer presented to hospital with “COVID-like” symptoms, he had not been formally diagnosed with the virus.

A spokesman for Mr Palmer said the United Australia Party chairman was “just being tested”.

On Wednesday, the same spokesman told this masthead Mr Palmer had a virus, but had not tested positive for COVID-19.

Mr Palmer, who has declared himself to be unvaccinated against COVID-19, has repeatedly come under fire for spreading misinformation about COVID vaccines and addressed an anti-vaccination rally in Brisbane late last year.

The 67-year-old’s planned National Press Club address in Canberra was cancelled on Tuesday after he fell ill and was unable to travel.

Mr Palmer has long had breathing difficulties – asthma as a child and sleep apnoea as an adult – and at one point travelled to the US for treatment.

In 2017, Mr Palmer attended a Federal Court hearing over the Queensland Nickel collapse with a breathing machine.

He claimed to have been suffering pancreatitis but was ordered to attend.

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