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Three members of the White House coronavirus task force were quarantined after contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19. It occurs when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to present his “road map” to a new normal in a national broadcast, and global infections exceed four million.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, is expected to Stephen Hahn, work remotely due to potential exposure to Covid-19.
Fauci’s institute said it has tested negative for Covid-19 and will continue to do so regularly. He added that he is considered to be at a relatively low risk based on the degree of his exposure, and that he would take adequate precautions to mitigate the risk of personal contacts while still performing his duties. While he will stay home and work remotely, Fauci will go to the White House if called and will take every precaution, the institute said.
Redfield will be teleworking for the next two weeks after it was determined that he had low-risk exposure to a person at the White House, the CDC said in a statement Saturday night. The statement said he was feeling well and has no symptoms.
A few hours earlier, the Food and Drug Administration confirmed that Hahn had contacted someone who had tested positive and was quarantined for the next two weeks. It was negative for the virus.
The three men were scheduled to testify before a Senate committee on Tuesday, and it is understood that they will be allowed to do so by video conference.
Politician reported that Hahn had contacted Katie Miller, vice president Press secretary to Mike Pence, who tested positive for the virus on Friday. Her husband Stephen Miller is one of Donald Trump’s top advisers. On Thursday, the White House confirmed that a member of the military who was serving as one of Trump’s valets had also tested positive for Covid-19.
Trump, who publicly identified Miller’s positive test, said he was not concerned about the spread of the virus at the White House. However, officials said they were tightening security protocols.
Redfield sought to use the exhibition as a teaching moment. The CDC statement says that if you must go to the White House to fulfill your responsibilities as part of the coronavirus workforce, you will follow CDC practices for critical infrastructure workers.
Those guidelines require Redfield and anyone who works in the task force to take their temperature and screen for symptoms every day, cover their faces, and stay away from others.
Trump has resisted wearing a mask. In a meeting with the nation’s top military leaders on Saturday night, he did not wear a mask during the brief portion that journalists were able to see. The generals around Trump were also unmasked, but the participants sat a few yards from each other.
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said the administration was stepping up mitigation efforts. It already requires daily temperature checks of anyone entering the complex and has encouraged social distancing among those who work in the building.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk announced that he was suing California authorities over the Covid-19 restrictions that have kept his Fremont factory closed and threatened to move his operation out of state.
“Whether we even maintain Fremont’s manufacturing activity will depend on how Tesla is treated in the future,” he tweeted.
In BrittanyBoris Johnson is expected to come up with a coronavirus warning system for England when he describes plans to gradually ease the blockade in one direction to the nation on Sunday night.
It is understood that a warning system administered by a new “joint biosecurity center” will detect local increases in infection rates, with the aim of altering local restrictions in England. Alerts will range from green at level one to red at level five. Johnson is expected to say the nation as a whole is close to going from four to three.
The UK has the second highest number of deaths from the virus, at 31,662, with more than 266,500 infections. Saturday the government He told airlines that he would introduce a 14-day quarantine period for most people arriving from abroad to try to avoid a second peak of the coronavirus outbreak.
The South Korean capital ordered all clubs and bars to be closed after an explosion of new cases raised fears of a second wave of coronavirus.
In Mexico, coronavirus patients were rejected from hospitals on Saturday as public and private medical facilities quickly filled up and the number of new infections continued to rise. Of the 64 public hospitals in the metropolitan area of the capital designated to receive Covid-19 patients, 26 were completely full, according to data from the city government.
Mexico announced 1,938 new cases of the virus on Saturday, with a total of 33,460, along with an additional 193 deaths, with a total of 3,353 deaths.
In other coronavirus developments:
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The global count of confirmed cases exceeded 4 million, with nearly 280,000 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.
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President Trump said Saturday that U.S It would buy $ 3 billion in dairy, meat and farm products from farmers as unemployment increases and the prices slaughterhouses pay farmers for animals have fallen amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Three children in NY they died of a rare inflammatory syndrome believed to be related to the new coronavirus, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced.
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China It reported 14 new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Sunday, the highest number since April 28, and just one case the day before. Of the new cases, two were imported infections. The remaining 12 confirmed cases were transmitted locally, including 11 cases in north-eastern Jilin province.
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AustraliaThe most populous state in New South Wales will begin easing its coronavirus restrictions starting Friday, with 10 people allowed in outdoor gatherings, instead of two.
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Air France will begin monitoring passenger temperatures when FranceThe blocking measures are eased on Monday.
