The vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, has tested positive for covid, official sources reported Tuesday.
“Today, Vice President Harris tested positive for COVID-19 in rapid and PCR tests,” the White House announced in a statement. “She has shown no symptoms; she will remain in isolation and will continue to work from the vice president’s residence.”
The US government clarifies that Harris, who has made several official visits in recent days, “has had no contact with the president [Joe Biden] not even with the first lady [Jill Biden] due to his recent travel schedules.
Harris, who is vaccinated against the new coronavirus, he will follow the “recommendations” of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and “will rejoin the White House when he tests negative.”
In this way, the vice president has become the highest-ranking official in the Biden Administration to contract the coronavirus to date. In the past, then President Donald Trump and part of his family they tested positive for covid.
Harris’s convalescence could slow down the legislative agenda of President Joe Biden, who needs his vote to break the tie that exists in the Senate, whose presidency is held precisely by Harris, for which he has a tiebreaker vote.
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