The chosen one is tipped to be Joe Biden’s running mate for the White House race.
By Le Figaro with AFP
–The mayor of the American city of Atlanta Keisha Lance Bottoms, whose name has been put forward as a possible running mate of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, announced this Tuesday, July 7, to have tested positive for the new coronavirus.
«COVID-19 has literally reached home. I had no symptoms and tested positive,Keisha Lance Bottoms tweeted. She explained on the CNN channel that she and her husband, also diagnosed positive for Covid-19, had decided to be tested because the latter had been sleeping more than usual since Thursday.
«I’m still in shock because I have no idea how we were exposed», She affirmed. She blamed her mild symptoms, headaches and dry cough, on allergies.
Seen as a possible running mate of Joe Biden, she made herself known through a poignant speech on May 29. As Atlanta, Georgia, in the southern United States, ignited in the wake of the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a black man suffocated by a white police officer, she called on the rioters to return home.
The United States is the country most affected in the world by the Covid-19 pandemic, both in number of cases (2,931,142) and deaths (130,248), according to the count from Johns Hopkins University.
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