W.H. Press Secretary Jen Psaki Tested Positive for Coronavirus

U.S.|Jen Psaki, the White House property secretary, has tested affirmative for the coronavirus.

• Oct. 31, 2021, 6:00 p.m. ET

Jen Psaki, the White House property caput who earlier successful the week said that she would not articulation President Biden connected a diplomatic travel to Europe due to the fact that of a household emergency, said connected Sunday that she tested for affirmative for the coronavirus.

“While I person not had adjacent interaction successful idiosyncratic with the president oregon elder members of the White House unit since Wednesday,” Ms. Psaki said, “I americium disclosing today’s affirmative trial retired of an abundance of transparency. I past saw the president connected Tuesday, erstwhile we sat extracurricular much than six feet apart, and wore masks.”

Ms. Psaki said that members of her household had tested affirmative for the microorganism earlier successful the week, and quarantined erstwhile she learned that they had contracted the virus. She tested antagonistic connected Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday earlier investigating affirmative connected Sunday. Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House main lawman property secretary, traveled connected the travel portion Ms. Psaki stayed location and went into quarantine.

“Thanks to the vaccine, I person lone experienced mild symptoms, which has enabled maine to proceed moving from home,” Ms. Psaki said.

The White House did not instantly respond to questions astir whether Ms. Psaki had received a booster shot, and did not instantly place the medication officials she had been successful adjacent interaction with earlier successful the week.

Mr. Biden traveled overseas with a ample delegation that included Jake Sullivan, his nationalist information adviser, Antony Blinken, the caput of state, and respective property officials, each of whom person interacted some with White House officials and a ample radical of journalists traveling with the president.

“I volition program to instrumentality to enactment successful idiosyncratic astatine the decision of the 10-day quarantine pursuing a antagonistic accelerated test,” Ms. Psaki said, “which is an further White House requirement, beyond C.D.C. guidance, taken retired of an abundance of caution.”

In July, aft a White House unit subordinate tested affirmative for the virus, Ms. Psaki warned that determination would beryllium much breakthrough cases and said precautions were successful spot to support the president.