Vice President Pence’s Chief of Staff Corona Infected – VG

– Today, Marc Short, the chief of staff of the vice president, tested positive for covid-19. He has started his quarantine, and the infection tracking process is underway, says press secretary Devin O’Malley in a press release according to CNN.

Pence, in consultation with the White House medical staff, has decided that he will continue as planned in accordance with the authorities’ guidelines for indispensable personnel, despite the fact that he is considered to have been in close contact with Short.

– Vice President Pence and his wife Karen Pence have both tested negative for covid-19 today, and are healthy, it is further stated in the press release.

Earlier Saturday, one of Pence’s closest political advisers, Marty Obst, also tested positive for covid-19, reports Bloomberg and CNN.

In the past, Pence spokeswoman Katie Miller has also tested positive.

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The contagion surrounding the vice president takes place just over a week before the US presidential election, and at the same time as the country is seriously in its second wave of corona infection.

On Friday, a new infection record was registered in the country with over 83,000 new cases of infection.

On Saturday, the record became even gloomier, with 88,973 new corona cases, according to Johns Hopkins University, writes NTB.

October 2, the president announced Donald Trump that he had tested positive for covid-19, since then, a number of people around Trump have confirmed the infection, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his wife Melania Trump. President Trump has been released in recent weeks.

The ceremony when Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court has been described as a mass-event. where at least 16 people have confirmed infection.