WASHINGTON – White House press secretary Jen Psaki tested positive for COVID-19, she disclosed Sunday in a statement that also said she has not been in close contact with the president or senior members of the White House staff since Wednesday.
Psaki said she last saw President Joe Biden on Tuesday, "when we sat outside more than six-feet apart, and wore masks."
Biden left Thursday for Europe and is not scheduled to return until Wednesday.
Psaki, who was supposed to accompany Biden, stayed back after members of her household tested positive. (At the time, the White House announced Psaki was not going because of a family emergency.)
She said she has been quarantined since then and tested negative every day until Sunday.
She said she disclosed the positive test "out of an abundance of transparency."
Psaki said she's experience only mild symptoms and will continue working from home until after a 10-day quarantine following a negative rapid test. She called that "an additional White House requirement, beyond CDC guidance, taken out of an abundance of caution."
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Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, tests positive for COVID-19 (usatoday.com)
Psaki said she last saw President Joe Biden on Tuesday, "when we sat outside more than six-feet apart, and wore masks."
Biden left Thursday for Europe and is not scheduled to return until Wednesday.
Psaki, who was supposed to accompany Biden, stayed back after members of her household tested positive. (At the time, the White House announced Psaki was not going because of a family emergency.)
She said she has been quarantined since then and tested negative every day until Sunday.
She said she disclosed the positive test "out of an abundance of transparency."
Psaki said she's experience only mild symptoms and will continue working from home until after a 10-day quarantine following a negative rapid test. She called that "an additional White House requirement, beyond CDC guidance, taken out of an abundance of caution."
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Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, tests positive for COVID-19 (usatoday.com)
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