U.S. first lady Jill Biden tests positive for rebound case of COVID-19

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. first girl Jill Biden has examined optimistic in a rebound case of COVID-19 however isn’t experiencing any signs, whereas President Joe Biden continues to check damaging for the virus, officers mentioned on Wednesday.

Jill Biden examined optimistic on Wednesday by antigen testing, following a damaging check the day gone by, and the White Home’s medical unit has notified shut contacts, her deputy communications director mentioned.

“The First Woman has skilled no reemergence of signs, and can stay in Delaware the place she has reinitiated isolation procedures,” her deputy communications director, Kelsey Donohue, mentioned in a press release.

Jill Biden, 71, first examined optimistic for COVID-19 on Aug. 16. She had ended her first isolation on Aug. 21 after a course of Paxlovid, an antiviral remedy.

President Biden examined damaging for COVID on Wednesday morning in antigen testing, the White Home mentioned.

A White Home official mentioned the president would put on a masks for 10 days when indoors and close to others. The White Home may also preserve President Biden’s elevated cadence of testing and report these outcomes, the official mentioned.

(Reporting by Chris Gallagher; modifying by Paul Grant and Leslie Adler)