Top White House aide tests positive for COVID-19

The US Vice-President Mike Pence's press secretary Katie Miller has tested positive for COVID-19 one day after another White House staff member was diagnosed with the virus.

Iran Press/America: The White House has begun daily testing for Pence and Trump, and has claimed to be taking 'every single precaution to protect the president'.

This is while, the US death toll from the Coronavirus infection is now over 76,000 and states are beginning to reopen.

Six members of Pence's team were abruptly taken off his plane, Air Force 2 after it was held on the tarmac outside Washington DC for over an hour on Friday, as he prepared to travel to Iowa to meet religious leaders.

The staff members had had recent contact with Mrs. Miller, according to an unnamed US official cited in the media report. The president and vice-president had not.

Mrs. Miller is the wife of Trump aide Stephen Miller. 101/207

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