US: White House press secretary tests positive for Covid-19
Days after US President Donald Trump examined certain for Covid-19, White Space press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has mentioned that she has additionally been inflamed by way of the virus.
White Space press secretary Kayleigh McEnany (AP photograph)
White Space press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has examined certain for Covid-19. She is one of the a number of high-profile officers in US President Donald Trump’s fast circle to be hit by way of the fatal virus.
After President Trump and the primary woman, the 32-year-old is the highest-ranking White Space legit to be examined certain for Covid-19, the fatal virus that has thus far killed greater than 200,000 American citizens this 12 months.
“After checking out unfavourable constantly, together with on a daily basis since Thursday, I examined certain for COVID-19 on Monday morning whilst experiencing no signs,” McEnany mentioned in a remark posted on Twitter.
“No newshounds, manufacturers or individuals of the clicking are indexed as shut contacts by way of the White Space Scientific Unit,” she mentioned.
“Additionally, I definitively had no wisdom of Hope Hicks’s analysis previous to preserving a White Space press briefing on Thursday,” she mentioned, relating to her press meet within the White Space on that day whilst now not dressed in a masks.
— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) October 5, 2020
Hope Hicks, an in depth aide of the president and the primary woman, used to be the primary senior White Space legit final week to have examined certain. Quickly thereafter Trump and his spouse Melania examined certain.
“As an very important employee, I’ve labored diligently to supply wanted knowledge to the American Other people right now. With my fresh certain check I can start the quarantine procedure and can proceed running on behalf of the American Other people remotely,” McEnany mentioned.
A number of White Space staffers have examined certain with Covid-19 in fresh months, together with Nationwide Safety Marketing consultant Robert O’Brien, Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary Katie Miller and Trump frame guy Nick Luna.
