US Vice President Kamala Harris has Covid-19

Kirsten Allen, the vice president’s press secretary, said Harris had no symptoms. Newspaper The USA Today Mr. Allen was quoted as saying: “She has no symptoms, will isolate and continue working from the vice president’s residence. She is following the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and doctor’s advice”.

Mr. Allen added that Ms. Harris would return to the White House after testing negative.

Ms. Harris arrived in California over the weekend. Several weeks now, many top officials in Washington have contracted Covid-19 after an annual event attended by hundreds of lawmakers, members of the media and business leaders on April 2.

Harris was not present at that event, but Jamal Simmons, the vice president’s communications director, attended the dinner and tested positive for Covid-19 not long after.

US Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff at San Bernardino International Airport, California, USA, January 21. Photo: Reuters

Kamala Harris’s positive result comes as the US has largely lifted most of the measures to prevent the Covid-19 epidemic. The number of infections, hospitalizations and deaths in the US have decreased significantly compared to the past winter months, when the Omicron variant caused a new wave of infections.

Previously, on March 15, Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff tested positive for Covid-19. Ms. Sabrina Singh, Ms. Harris’s Deputy Press Secretary, said that out of an abundance of caution, Vice President Harris did not attend the event that was scheduled for the evening of the same day. Vice President Harris then tested negative for Covid-19.

At the end of 2021, Kamala Harris vaccinated against Covid-19 in a live television broadcast on December 29, urging people to believe in vaccination to be able to end the epidemic. raging in America. She received a booster shot in early April recently. Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, was also vaccinated at the same time.