(Washington) U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday but is not considered to have been in “close” contact with President Joe Biden, her door-keeper said. word.
Posted at 12:46 p.m.
Mme Harris “has no symptoms, she will self-isolate and continue to work from her residency,” Kirsten Allen said in a statement.
“She has not been in close contact with the President or the First Lady due to their recent travel plans” and she “will return to the White House when she tests negative,” she added.
Several members of the Biden administration, such as the Minister of Justice, as well as the President’s spokesperson Jen Psaki or the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi have tested positive in recent weeks.
President Biden, 79, who received his second booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the end of March, has regularly been considered not to be a “contact case” as defined by American health authorities.
Kamala Harris’ husband, “Second Gentleman” Doug Emhoff, fell ill in March.
The United States is currently seeing a spike in daily COVID-19 case counts again, linked to Omicron’s BA.2 subvariant.