By US First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 and developed mild symptoms.
This development comes two weeks after her husband Joe Biden contracted the virus for a second time.
In a statement on Tuesday, her spokesperson Elizabeth Alexander said the 71-year-old First Lady tested negative on Monday but developed “cold-like symptoms late in the evening”.
“She tested negative again on a rapid antigen test, but a PCR test came back positive,” Alexander said.
Jill has been prescribed a course of the oral antiviral pill Paxlovid, following CDC guidance and will isolate for at least five days.
Alexander added that she “is double-vaccinated, twice boosted, and only experiencing mild symptoms”.
Meanwhile, Biden, who turns 80 in November, has recently recovered from two separate bouts of the coronavirus.
He first tested positive on July 21 and continued to carry out his duties while isolating at the White House. He again received a positive result on July 30 and entered isolation a second time.
Biden tested negative for COVID on Tuesday morning on an antigen test, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
“Consistent with CDC guidance because he is a close contact of the first lady, he will mask for 10 days when indoors and in close proximity to others,” Jean-Pierre added.
“We will also increase the president’s testing cadence and report those results.”
