Kamala Harris tests positive for Covid, is not exhibiting symptoms
US Vice President Kamala Harris addresses a multilateral meeting with the Estonian Prime Minister, the Latvian President and the Lithuanian President during the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2022.
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Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, her office said, noting that she didn’t have any symptoms and hadn’t been in close contact with the president or first lady.
Harris, 57, “will isolate and continue to work from the Vice President’s residence,” her press secretary, Kirsten Allen, said in a statement.
Harris, who is first inthe presidential line of succession, is the highest-ranking official in the Biden administration to contract Covid.
She is fully vaccinated against the virus, and received her second booster shot earlier this month.
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