Covid-19: White House chief of staff Mark Meadows tests positive

posted by franklin dumbari �s November 07, 2020

Mark Meadows tests positive for corona-virus

Covid-19: White House chief of staff Mark Meadows tests positive.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has tested positive for Covid-19, officials have told US media.

It was not immediately clear how Mr Meadows - who has often appeared at public events without a face mask - was infected.

He is the latest Trump administration official to contract the disease, which has killed some 230,000 Americans.

On Friday, the US set a third straight daily record for new cases, with more than 127,000 infections.

The country's coronavirus outbreak was a key policy battleground in the run-up to the 3 November election, and contributed to a surge in postal and early in-person voting.

In late October, Mr Meadows said in an interview with CNN that the US was "not going to control the pandemic", saying that Covid-19 could only be defeated by "mitigation areas" like vaccines and therapeutics.

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