House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has examined constructive for COVID-19, a day after showing unmasked at a White House occasion with President Joe Biden.
Pelosi obtained a constructive check consequence for COVID-19 and is presently asymptomatic, her spokesman Drew Hammill mentioned Thursday in a tweet. He mentioned she had examined unfavourable earlier within the week.
“The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided,” Hammill mentioned. Pelosi, he mentioned, will “quarantine consistent with CDC guidance, and encourages everyone to get vaccinated, boosted and test regularly.”
The White House mentioned Biden and Pelosi had solely “brief interactions over the course of the last two days” and that the president was not thought-about an in depth contact of the speaker by CDC steering — sustained unmasked contact inside 6 toes for greater than quarter-hour over a 24-hour interval.
“Last night as a part of his regular testing cadence, the President tested negative,” the White House mentioned in a press release. “He will continue to be tested regularly. The President wishes Speaker Pelosi a speedy recovery.”
The 82-year-old Democratic chief’s announcement got here forward of her weekly press look on Capitol Hill, which was abruptly referred to as off. The House is about to begin a two week spring recess.
Pelosi additionally postponed a deliberate congressional delegation journey to Asia she was scheduled to steer.
Washington has skilled a rush of latest COVID-19 instances as restrictions have lifted and extra occasions and gatherings are taking place throughout Washington, D.C.
On Wednesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo introduced constructive checks. The officers had been amongst greater than a dozen attendees of the Saturday night time Gridiron Club dinner to check constructive for the virus. Pelosi didn’t attend the dinner, her spokesman mentioned.
Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser additionally introduced Thursday that she examined constructive for COVID-19 and would “work at home while following isolation protocols.”
Several lawmakers have introduced constructive check outcomes and are isolating.
The Capitol reopened final week to some public excursions for the primary time because it was shuttered two years in the past with the onset of the pandemic.
