National security adviser Robert O’Brien conducted COVID-19 tests on Monday, a White House official showed.
“National security adviser Robert O’Brien tested positive for COVID-19. He has mild symptoms, isolates himself and works from a safe place off site,” the official said in a statement.
“There is no exposure to the president or vice president,” the official added. “The paintings of the National Security Council continue uninterrupted.”
Positive verification makes O’Brien the White House official to test positive for the virus, which has inflamed more than 4.2 million Americans and killed more than 145,000 people in the United States.
O’Brien, elected as national security adviser last September, is a member of President Trump Donald John Trump The teachers union is launching a 0K ad takeover that calls for an investment in relief bill education The FDA is committed to ”not taking shortcuts’ in the coronavirus vaccine Let’s let our values lead COVID-19’s top-trusted advisers. He meets with Trump to inform him about national security issues and, as a result, is given a daily coronavirus test.
O’Brien traveled to Europe this month to meet his counterparts from France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany. Travel with Trump, as well as visit the headquarters of U.S. Southern Command. In Doral, Florida, on July 10 for a briefing on anti-narcotics operations.
He is also a member of the White House Coronavirus Working Group, which meets at least once a week. Not without delay was it transparent when O’Brien last attended an in-person running organization assembly.
Bloomberg News first reported that O’Brien had tested positive. According to the media, O’Brien contracted the virus while away from the paintings and had been away from last week.
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow Larry KudlowMORE told reporters Monday that he spoke to O’Brien on Friday and said he believed O’Brien’s daughter was in poor health before getting the disease. Kudlow said he didn’t talk to O’Brien on Monday and he may just not verify that he tested positive.
The case is the most recent example of coronavirus that has arrived at the White House, which has taken precautions to ensure the protection of the president and vice president, adding through testing all other people who approach them. However, the White House got rid of some measures put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, adding the removal of the requirement to wear a mask and the cessation of temperature controls for those entering the White House complex.
One of the president’s army chamber aides and the vice president’s press secretary have already tested the virus. Kimberly Guilfoyle Kimberly’s national security adviser Ann GuilfoyleTrump did the coronavirus test The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented via Facebook – Trump pivots on the convention; The GOP punishes the bill for the Trump Crusade virus is raising millions of dollars in the more virtual fundraiser, which is a senior Trump crusade official and is dating Donald Trump Jr., who also tested this month.
Last week, a cafeteria worker working on building Eisenhower’s executive workplace tested positive for the virus, as did a U.S. Marine assigned to Trump’s helicopter squadron ahead of the president’s scheduled golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
–Updated at 12:16 p.m.
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