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US reservists tested positive for Covid-19 after protests

National Guard reservists tested positive for Covid-19 after being deployed to protesters, raising fears of a resurgence of the epidemic in support of rallies against police violence in the United States.

We can confirm that we have positive tests for Covid-19 in the ranks of the Washington National Guard, spokesman for the US National Guard office, Lt. Col. Brooke Davis, said in a statement on Tuesday. She refused to specify the number of positive cases, citing reasons for operational security.

Social distancing impossible

Some 1,700 reservists of the National Guard of the capital had been mobilized last week to contain the sometimes violent demonstrations which multiplied since the death on May 25 of George Floyd, a black man of 46 years asphyxiated under the knee of a white policeman.

Their intervention was sometimes brutal, notably during the dispersal of a peaceful demonstration with tear gas to allow President Donald Trump to pose, bible in hand, in front of a church near the White House.

And even if they were hidden and protected by visors, social distancing was almost impossible to respect in many places.

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