White House press secretary Jen Psaki tests positive for COVID-19 for 2nd time

Biden examined destructive on Tuesday, she mentioned.

Psaki tweeted that she took a laboratory check for COVID-19 in preparation for the journey, which will get underway on Wednesday, and was later notified of a optimistic consequence.

She mentioned she had two “socially distanced conferences” with Biden on Monday and that he’s not thought-about a “shut contact” below tips from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. She mentioned she shared the information “out of an abundance of transparency.”

Psaki tweeted and launched a press release a short while earlier than she was scheduled to step into the White Home press room for her every day briefing, accompanied by Nationwide Safety Adviser Jake Sullivan, who was becoming a member of her to debate the journey.

After a short delay, Chris Meagher, a deputy press secretary, launched Sullivan to a ready White Home press corps and he proceeded with the briefing.

Psaki mentioned she’s going to observe CDC steerage and not accompany Biden on his stops in Belgium, for a sequence of conferences with European leaders on Russia’s battle in Ukraine, and in Poland, which shares a border with Ukraine and has taken in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing warfare.

Psaki mentioned she has solely skilled gentle signs and credited being vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19. She mentioned below White Home COVID-19 protocols, she’s going to work at home and plan to return to work on the finish of a five-day isolation interval and a destructive check.

That is the second time that COVID-19 has compelled Psaki to bow out of accompanying Biden overseas. She sat out final fall’s journey to Rome and Glasgow, Scotland, after disclosing she had examined optimistic.