White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reported this Sunday that she has tested positive for COVID-19 upon her return from the trip to Europe with US President Joe Biden.
“This afternoon, after returning from the president's trip to Europe, I took a PCR test. The test came back positive,” said Jean-Pierre in a statement released by the White House.
“The last time I saw the president was during a socially distanced meeting yesterday, and the president is not considered a close contact as defined by the CDC. I share the news of my positive test today for transparency,” he added.
The White House undersecretary of the press has pointed out that she only experiences “mild symptoms”, something for which she thanked the vaccine against the disease.
“In line with the White House COVID-19 protocols, I will be working from home and plan to return to work in person after a five-day period of isolation and a negative test,” said Jean-Pierre.
Last week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki also tested positive for COVID-19 before traveling to Europe with President Joe Biden.
Biden has traveled to Europe on his third trip to the continent since taking office in January 2021. The White House tenant has participated in the extraordinary NATO summit and the G-7 meeting in Brussels.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden visited US soldiers deployed near the Polish border with Ukraine on Friday, which he defined as “the best fighting force in the history of the world.”
Biden sat down for pizza lunch with some members of the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Armed Forces, displaced to Poland to reinforce NATO's eastern flank after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “We are in the middle of, and I don't want to sound too philosophical, but in the middle of a struggle between democracies and oligarchs,” the president said.
He continued: “The world will not be the same, not because of Ukraine, but it will not be the same in 10 or 15 years in terms of our organizational structures. The question is: Who will prevail? Will our democracy prevail and the values we share? Or will autocracies prevail? And that is really what is at stake. So what they are doing (he told the soldiers) is consistent, really consistent.”
Then, he said: “I spent a lot of time in Ukraine when I was a senator and vice-president. I spoke to the Rada (Parliament) in the days when they did not actually have what you would call 'democracy' and I was there in Maidan when the former leader (former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych) had to take off and lead Russia. And so, you know, with the Ukrainian people, the Ukrainian people have a lot of backbones and a lot of guts, and I'm sure they're watching it.”
(With information from Europa Press)
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