Doug Emhoff, the so-called “second gentleman”, the wife of US Vice President Kamala Harris, was diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2, but his wife tested negative, the White House announced on Tuesday. .
Nevertheless, Kamala Harris canceled her participation in an event in the American presidency “precautionarily” and will continue to be examined daily, informed the representative of the vice president, Sabrina Singh.
US President Joe Biden said during the White House event that his vice president “chose not to risk it”, that “as a precaution, he chose not to be with us tonight”. “Emhoff is doing well,” he assured.
Mr Emhoff, a 57-year-old lawyer, is the first “second gentleman” in American history.
Several prominent figures in the United States, including former President Barack Obama, have been infected with the virus recently, as states and cities remove most of the remaining restrictive measures.
The United States is by far the hardest hit by the global pandemic, with some 966,000 dead from COVID-19 out of a total of more than 79 million SARS-CoV-2 cases, according to university data. Johns Hopkins until yesterday afternoon.
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