Pelosi Staffer, White House Official Test Positive for Covid

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Billy House and Jordan Fabian, Bloomberg

July 20, 2021Updated: July 20, 2021 11:25 a.m.

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(Bloomberg) -- A elder spokesperson for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a White House authoritative person tested affirmative for Covid-19. Both had been afloat vaccinated and person been successful self-isolation.

The Pelosi unit subordinate had nary interaction with the talker since being exposed, Drew Hammill, a Pelosi spokesperson, said successful a statement. A White House authoritative said that declaration tracing had determined that the infected unit determination had nary adjacent interaction with elder people.

The Pelosi staffer tested affirmative aft gathering past week with Democratic members of the Texas legislature who aboriginal learned they had the virus. Axios, which archetypal reported the affirmative tests, said the White House authoritative had been astatine a reception that the Pelosi unit subordinate besides attended.

Six of the Texas Democrats who fled Austin past week to halt a ballot connected authorities mounting up much stringent voting requirements person tested affirmative for the virus.

They met with respective lawmakers and Vice President Kamala Harris, who the White House said Monday tested antagonistic for the microorganism since the meeting.

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