WASHINGTON – White House Counsellor Hope Hicks underwent coronavirus testing after traveling with President Donald Trump in recent days, according to a user familiar with Hicks’s situation.
She is in common contact with the president and Trump as she traveled and was returning from the first presidential debate in Cleveland on Tuesday.
She appears in a photo arriving in Cleveland, dressed in a protective mask. Hicks also traveled aboard Marine One, the presidential helicopter, for a rally in Minnesota on Wednesday.
Bloomberg reported that Hicks had some symptoms related to coronavirus, according to others close to her to whom they were told.
Hicks is the last White House official to positive for the virus. Previously, Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary, Katie Miller, had recovered from COVID.
One of Trump’s oldest political advisers, Hicks’ component of the original presidential crusade team unveiled in 2015.
White House spokesman Judd Deere did not comment on the Hicks situation, but did issue a statement that management is taking precautions based on the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. the other American people very seriously. “
Trump has been criticized for organizing demonstrations that pose a threat of coronavirus, which has killed more than 200,000 Americans and inflamed more than 7. 2 million.