TRENTON, New Jersey – Former Governor Chris Christie took the COVID-19 test, he said Saturday.
Christie announced hers with a tweet.
“I just got a message that I’m positive for COVID-19,” Christie wrote. “I need to thank all my friends and colleagues who have asked me how I’ve been feeling for the last two days. I will receive medical attention and stay the other mandatory people reported my condition.
Christie did not respond promptly to a message requesting comments on Saturday and said Friday that she was expecting the effects she planned to quarantine at home for two weeks.
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Christie, 58, had been with President Donald Trump for several days last week to help prepare for the first presidential debate opposed to Democratic challenger Joe Biden, who tested negative for the coronavirus. He said “no one wore a mask” the sessions.
Christie was also one of nearly two hundred participants in an open-air rally at the White House to announce Amy Coney Barrett’s appointment to the United States Supreme Court, regarded as a imaginable “super-spreading event. “At most of the other participants, Christie was not dressed in a mask and noticed in the video shaking hands and hugging others.
I just got a message that I’m positive for COVID-19. I need to thank all my friends and colleagues who asked me how I felt over the next two days. I will get medical attention today and keep the other mandatory people informed of my condition.
Several other people who provided in the rite tested positive: Kellyanne Conway, a former local White House counselor in New Jersey; Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah; Thom Tillis of North Carolina; and the Reverend John Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame.
Bill Stepien, the former crusader manager of The Governor of Christie who now leads Trump’s re-election candidacy, has also conducted tests to detect the virus.
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