Donald Trump, Melania undergo Covid-19 test after top aide tests positive for coronavirus

US President Donald Trump on Friday stated he and primary woman Melania Trump have passed through a Covid-19 check after a most sensible aide he spent really extensive time with this week examined sure for the illness.

Trump, in a tweet, stated he and Melania Trump are starting a “quarantine procedure” as they look ahead to for the Covid-19 check effects. Trump’s feedback got here after he showed that Hope Hicks, one his closest aides, had examined sure for the virus.

Hope Hicks, who has been operating so exhausting with out even taking a small spoil, has simply examined sure for Covid 19. Horrible! The First Woman and I are looking forward to our check effects. Within the period in-between, we will be able to start our quarantine procedure!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020

Hope Hicks, who serves as counselor to Trump, had traveled with Trump to the primary presidential debate in Cleveland on Tuesday. She is the nearest White Space reputable to Trump to check sure for the virus to this point.

In a remark, White Space spokesman Judd Deere stated the president “takes the well being and protection of himself and everybody who works in make stronger of him and the American folks very significantly.”

“White Space Operations collaborates with the Doctor to the President and the White Space Army Place of job to make sure all plans and procedures incorporate present CDC steerage and best possible practices for proscribing Covid-19 publicity to the best extent conceivable each on advanced and when the President is touring,” Deere stated.

Hicks traveled with the president more than one occasions this week, together with aboard Marine One, the presidential helicopter, and on Air Pressure One to a rally in Minnesota Wednesday, and aboard Air Pressure One to Tuesday night time’s first presidential debate in Cleveland.

(With inputs from AP)