⁍ White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Monday she tested positive for COVID-19.
⁍ McEnany said she would begin quarantining and that the White House medical unit does not list any members of the press as close contacts.
⁍ ‘I definitively had no knowledge of Hope Hicks’ diagnosis prior to holding a White House press briefing on Thursday,’ McEnany said in a statement.
– White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Monday she has tested positive for coronavirus and will be placed in quarantine, the Washington Post reports. According to Reuters, McEnany said in a statement that “I definitively had no knowledge of Hope Hicks’ diagnosis prior to holding a White House press briefing on Thursday.” Hicks, President Trump’s communications director, tested positive for the virus last week.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-mcenany/white-house-press-secretary-mcenany-tests-positive-for-covid-19-idUSKBN26Q2CT