The White House announced Tuesday that Jill Biden, first lady, has tested positive for COVID-19.
The president’s 71-year-old wife, who is double-vaxxed and boosted, returned a positive PCR test after developing “cold-like symptoms” Monday evening, according to a statement from her spokesperson, Elizabeth Alexander.
The White House stated that President Biden had been tested negative for COVID-19 Tuesday morning. However, he would wear a mask indoors and around other people for ten days because he was a close friend of his wife.
The president was due to return to Washington Tuesday afternoon to sign the $737 billion Inflation Reduction Act. He will then continue on to Delaware. It was not immediately clear whether the first lady’s positive test would impact any of those plans.
Jill Biden will self-isolate for at least five days and remain at the South Carolina home where the first family had been vacationing until she receives two consecutive negative COVID tests. The White House stated that she is experiencing mild symptoms.
The first lady’s case comes nearly a month after the president first tested positive for COVID shortly after returning from a trip to the Middle East. Joe Biden tested negative five days after his initial infection, but tested positive again days later in a “rebound” case of the coronavirus. He was cleared to travel again Aug. 7, after another eight days in isolation.
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