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Katie Miller, seen here with Mike Pence’s chief of staff, is married to Trump’s assistant Stephen Miller.
A senior aide to the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, tested positive for Covid-19 the day after another White House staff member was diagnosed with the virus.
Pence’s press secretary Katie Miller tested positive Friday, a day after President Donald Trump’s valet.
The White House has begun daily tests for Pence and Trump, and has stated that it is taking “every precaution to protect the President.”
The death toll in the United States now exceeds 76,000 and states are beginning to reopen.
Six members of the Pence team were abruptly removed from their Air Force 2 plane after it was on the tarmac outside Washington, DC for more than an hour on Friday, as it prepared to travel to Iowa to meet with leaders. religious.
Staff members had recent contact with Ms. Miller, according to an unidentified US official quoted in the media group report. The President and Vice President had not.
Mrs. Miller is the wife of Trump’s aide Stephen Miller.
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Trump visited the WWII memorial in Washington DC on Friday
During a meeting with Republicans at the White House, Trump told reporters: “She is a wonderful young woman, Katie.”
“She gave very good results over a long period of time and suddenly she tested positive today.”
When asked about the possibility of an outbreak at the White House, Trump told reporters: “All you can do is take precautions and do the best you can.”
He also said he was correct not to wear a mask while visiting the World War II memorial in Washington for VE Day, because the elderly veterans who were with him were “very far away.”
“Also, the wind was blowing so hard and in such a direction that if the plague reached them, I would be very surprised,” he added.
Giving the impression that you are under control
BBC White House correspondent Tara McKelvey
The president made it clear that he doesn’t like the way a mask sees him.
He said last month that he believes wearing a mask would not make a good impression on world leaders and others he knows.
“In greeting presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens … I don’t see it for myself, I just don’t,” Trump told a journalist.
For some, the president’s refusal to wear a mask is more than a matter of style. It is a political statement.
Trump and the other White House officials want to give people the impression that the health crisis is under control and that the economy will soon return to normal.
Earlier Friday, Trump told Fox and his friends that his aides had already started wearing masks.
A day earlier, it was learned that a member of the US Navy. USA Serving the President’s meal had tested positive for coronavirus.
The president said the individual had tested negative four days earlier.
“This is why the tests are not necessarily the answer,” he said, although he noted that the staff would now be evaluated daily. “The evidence only goes so far.”
Later, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended measures taken by the White House to keep officials safe.
“We have taken every precaution to protect the president,” said McEnany.
Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, also told reporters: “This is the safest place they can come to.”
On Friday, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first saliva test collection kit for home use.
The government agency has come under fire for allowing the market to flood with test kits that sometimes show false results.
According to the White House Coronavirus Task Force, the US USA They are evaluating about 248,000 people per day and so far they have evaluated around 8.1 million people.
