Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, tests positive for the coronavirus.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California examined constructive for the coronavirus, her workplace mentioned on Thursday, the most recent high-profile official to take action because the virus spreads via Washington.

Drew Hammill, a spokesman for Ms. Pelosi, mentioned she was asymptomatic, and had beforehand been vaccinated and boosted. He added that Ms. Pelosi, 82, had examined unfavourable earlier this week.

“The speaker is totally vaccinated and boosted, and is grateful for the strong safety the vaccine has supplied,” Mr. Hammill mentioned, including that she would isolate according to steerage from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.

The speaker “encourages everybody to get vaccinated, boosted and take a look at frequently,” he mentioned.

Ms. Pelosi, who’s second within the line of succession to the presidency after Vice President Kamala Harris, was among the many lawmakers who appeared maskless with President Biden at a bill-signing ceremony on the White Home earlier this week.

The constructive take a look at got here simply earlier than her weekly information convention, which was subsequently canceled. Mr. Hammill said {that a} deliberate congressional delegation to Asia, which Ms. Pelosi had been scheduled to steer, can be postponed.