First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday and President Biden’s test results came back negative, according to the White House.
Jill Biden, 72, “is currently experiencing only mild symptoms,” her communications director Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement.
“He will remain at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware,” Alexander added.
The first woman, who had previously received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine as well as a pair of booster shots, had tested positive for the coronavirus at least twice before.
Joe Biden, 80, underwent a COVID-19 test Monday night following the first lady’s positive test, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
“The president tested negative. The president will test at a normal pace this week and monitor symptoms,” Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
Jill Biden is experiencing “mild symptoms,” according to the White House.AFP via Getty Images
The first lady accompanied her husband to Florida on Saturday where the couple visited the area hit by Hurricane Idalia. They were joined on the ground by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and met with several first responders, federal staff and local officials during the brief visit.
The Biden family explored their home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., after the Florida trip and the president spent part of Sunday at mass at St. Edmond.
President Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Monday night. AFP via Getty Images
The president left Delaware early on Labor Day Monday to speak at a rally for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) in Philadelphia.
He is scheduled to travel to India from September 7 to September 10 for the Group of 20 Summit, a trip that will include a stopover in Hanoi, Vietnam.
The first woman’s first positive COVID-19 test occurred on August 16, 2022, after experiencing “flu-like symptoms” near the end of the first family’s stay on Kiawah Island, SC
The first couple spent the weekend in Florida and Delaware, before President Biden visited Philadelphia on Monday and then returned to the White House.REUTERS
He again tested positive in a “rebound” case of the virus on August 24, 2022, but experienced “no recurrence of symptoms.”
Joe Biden, who has also been vaccinated against the virus at least four times, tested positive for COVID-19 on July 21, 2022, after returning from a trip to the Middle East.
The president was treated with the antiviral drug Paxlovid and experienced “mild symptoms,” including a cough, runny nose and fatigue, according to his doctor, Dr. Kevin O’Connor.
He was allowed to travel 17 days after being confirmed positive.
The president will test this week and “monitor symptoms,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. AFP via Getty Images
A new variant of COVID-19, dubbed the Pirola variant, has been detected by doctors in Ohio, Virginia, Michigan, New York, and Texas, but experts aren’t sure whether it’s more contagious or deadlier than other variants.
Also referred to as BA.2.86, Pirola is a highly mutated variant of the Omicron strain of the coronavirus, which emerged in 2021 and became the dominant strain in the US.
“When Omicron hit in the winter of 2021, there was a huge increase in cases of COVID-19 because it was very different from the Delta variant, and it evaded immunity from natural infection and vaccination,” said infectious disease expert Dr. Scott Roberts. in the Yale Medical bulletin.
The bulletin noted that “there is some cause for concern, as this variant … has more than 30 mutations in its spike protein,” referring to the protein on the surface of the virus that allows it to enter and infect human cells.
“Such a high number of mutations is significant,” Roberts said. “When we go from XBB.1.5 to EG.5, that’s probably one or two mutations. But this massive shift, which we also saw from Delta to Omicron, is worrying.”
The White House did not say which variant the first lady was infected with.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week projected an acceleration in new COVID-19 hospitalizations over the coming month, after five consecutive weeks of increases in hospitalizations related to the virus.
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