The US First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for
Covid-19 and developed mild symptoms, the White House said on Tuesday, two
weeks after her husband Joe Biden contracted the virus for a second time.
The 71-year-old wife of the president tested negative Monday
but developed “cold-like symptoms late in the evening,” her communications
director Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement.
Alexander said a subsequent rapid antigen test was negative,
but a more detailed PCR test was positive.
The first lady has been prescribed a course of the oral
antiviral pill Paxlovid and will isolate for at least five days.
She “is double-vaccinated, twice boosted, and only experiencing
mild symptoms,” Alexander added.
Jill Biden tested positive while on holiday in South
Carolina, where she is staying at a private residence, and will return to the
White House after two consecutive negative tests, her aide said.
President Biden, who turns 80 in November, has recently
recovered from two separate bouts of the coronavirus.
He first tested positive on July 21 and continued to carry
out his duties while isolating at the White House.
After four days of negative tests, he again received a
positive result on July 30 and entered isolation a second time.
AFP
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