President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have since tested negative for the virus, the White House said Thursday.
One of President Donald Trump's personal valets, who works in the West Wing serving the president his meals among other duties, has tested positive for the coronavirus, the closest the virus is known to have come to the president, a White House official said.
Since the White House medical unit was made aware of the case, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have both tested negative for the virus, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said Thursday.
The White House did not say when the person developed symptoms or when the president was last exposed to the individual, whom Gidley described as a military official.
It can sometimes take several days for the virus to appear on a test once a person has been infected.
Him, too, at a guess.
And he is so like Trump, wouldn't you say?
Brazil: largest rise in Covid-19 deaths follows Bolsonaro 'worst is over' claim
Brazil has seen its largest ever daily increase in its coronavirus death toll, despite erroneous suggestions from President Jair Bolsonaro that the worst of the crisis was over.
Brazil – which is now considered a major global centre of the pandemic – reported 633 Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday, taking its total to nearly 8,000.
Three of Brazil’s 27 states this week announced the country’s first official lockdown measures to try to slow the spread of the disease.
But speaking to reporters outside his presidential palace on Tuesday afternoon, Bolsonaro suggested his country was passing its Covid-19 peak.
“I don’t know yet if the number of deaths is less than yesterday. But if it is, if I’m not mistaken, it’ll be the sixth consecutive day in which the number of deaths has fallen,” Bolsonaro said.
“That’s a sign that the worst is over, and I ask God for this to be true,” Bolsonaro added.
It was not true. Just a few hours later, Brazil’s health ministry announced that the number of reported deaths had in fact risen.
Him, too, at a guess.
And he is so like Trump, wouldn't you say?
Brazil: largest rise in Covid-19 deaths follows Bolsonaro 'worst is over' claim
Brazil has seen its largest ever daily increase in its coronavirus death toll, despite erroneous suggestions from President Jair Bolsonaro that the worst of the crisis was over.
Brazil – which is now considered a major global centre of the pandemic – reported 633 Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday, taking its total to nearly 8,000.
Three of Brazil’s 27 states this week announced the country’s first official lockdown measures to try to slow the spread of the disease.
But speaking to reporters outside his presidential palace on Tuesday afternoon, Bolsonaro suggested his country was passing its Covid-19 peak.
“I don’t know yet if the number of deaths is less than yesterday. But if it is, if I’m not mistaken, it’ll be the sixth consecutive day in which the number of deaths has fallen,” Bolsonaro said.
“That’s a sign that the worst is over, and I ask God for this to be true,” Bolsonaro added.
It was not true. Just a few hours later, Brazil’s health ministry announced that the number of reported deaths had in fact risen.
Under-reporting and a lack of testing also means the true numbers are almost certainly much higher.
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