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President Donald Trump showed Wednesday that a white house member tested positive for coronavirus.
But the anonymous user that the disease did not “affect” the gigantic face-to-face demonstration with several world leaders who took a position in the South Garden of the White House a day earlier, Trump’s spokeswoman said.
Questions had been raised the previous day about Covid-19 infection in the White House, when a journalist reported hearing about “some positive aspects today. “
In a briefing, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany refused to say if any members had tested positive and said, “I don’t do a percentage of people’s non-public medical information. “
But Trump, speaking at a news convention in the White House meeting room Tuesday night, is more willing to talk about what he had been told.
“I heard about it this morning at a very small level,” Trump began. But moments later, he said, “Last night, I first heard about it, and that’s a small number of cases. “
She then asked McEnany, who was sitting by the podium, what she could share.
“We are not going to verify the identities,” he said, “but it was not the occasion and the press was not,” said the inflamed user.
“And no one close to me,” Trump added.
McEnany told Trump that only one user had tested positive for the virus. “He’s a user,” Trump repeated, adding that “no user I related to. “
On Tuesday, the White House held a rite in its south garden for the signing of agreements formalizing the diplomatic formalization between Israel and two Arab Gulf states, attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with the leaders of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Person.
CNN and other media outlets noted that the demonstration gave the impression of forgetting the maximum social estating measures through public fitness experts, adding many members of the Trump administration.
Others who ran for the White House have already tested positive and in May revealed that a private valet from Trump, who, among other tasks, serves the president’s meals, had contracted the virus.
That same month, Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary Katie Miller also tested positive.
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