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First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday, the White House announced.
“This evening, the First Lady tested positive for COVID-19. He is currently experiencing only mild symptoms. “He will be staying at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware,” Elizabeth Alexander, a spokeswoman for the first lady, said in a statement.
According to the White House, President Joe Biden tested negative.
Last summer, the first lady tested positive for Covid-19 after vacationing in South Carolina in August. President Joe Biden tested positive last July. Both experienced relapse shortly after treatment with Paxlovid.
An administration official told CNN last month that while some experts cautioned that there had been no change in White House protocols, the rising number of hospitalizations meant some high-risk individuals might consider wearing masks to avoid the spread of Covid.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in the White House briefing room in July that anyone who meets the president is still being tested for Covid-19 after members of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s delegation tested positive ahead of the bilateral meeting. .
“We have testing protocols in place anytime — any time someone meets the president,” Jean-Pierre said at the time. “So I can tell you that anybody who meets with the president is really going to be vetted. I do. We do everything.”
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