Mike Pence staffer assessments optimistic for coronavirus, had no ‘shut contact’ with Trump – White Home

A member of US Vice President Mike Pence’s workers has examined optimistic for the coronavirus, the White Home has confirmed, however mentioned that neither Pence nor President Donald Trump had been uncovered.

“This night we had been notified member of the Workplace of the Vice President examined optimistic for the Coronavirus,” Pence’s spokeswoman Katie Miller instructed reporters on Friday night, including, “Neither President [Donald] Trump nor Vice President Pence had shut contact with the person.”

Additional contact tracing is being performed in accordance with CDC tips

Per Pence spokesperson Katie Miller:
“This night we had been notified member of the Workplace of the Vice President examined optimistic for the Coronavirus. Neither President Trump nor Vice President Pence had shut contact with the person.”

— Steve Holland (@steveholland1) March 20, 2020

Trump put Pence in control of the administration’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak on the finish of February, and each have stood shut to one another throughout every day press briefings on the White Home all this week.

That is at the least the third time there was a scare concerning the risk that Pence, 60, or Trump, 73, might need been uncovered to the virus that tends to be deadly for the aged. Beforehand, they’d each been involved with members of Congress who had attended the Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC) final month, the place one outstanding donor from New York examined optimistic. 

Final week, a staffer for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro additionally examined optimistic for the coronavirus, after he had taken footage with Trump at his Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago throughout a working go to to the US. Bolsonaro himself has vocally denied experiences that he might need been contaminated himself.

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