Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said in a tweet Monday that she tested positive for coronavirus, despite being asymptomatic.
“COVID-19 has literally come home. I have had no symptoms and have tested positive,” he tweeted.
Fulton County, where Atlanta is located, has seen nearly 9,000 cases of coronavirus, according to the Georgia Department of Health.
Bottoms, a rising star in the Democratic Party, has recently been catapulted into the national spotlight when the nation’s race trial flared up for the murder of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis also hit Atlanta. She is reportedly considered a companion for alleged Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
And the gap between Atlanta residents who protested for weeks against police brutality and police widened after the shooting of Rayshard Brooks, 27, a black man who died after he was shot twice by an Atlanta police officer. on his back in the Wendy’s parking lot. Lot in June. The shooting resulted in the resignation of the chief of the Atlanta Police Department and two officers involved in the shooting who were criminally charged.
Bottoms has issued a series of executive orders to reform the police department.
