House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tests positive for Covid, is not experiencing symptoms

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House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for Covid, but does not have any symptoms, her office said Thursday.

“After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic,” her deputy chief of staff Drew Hammill said in a Twitter post.

Pelosi’s positive test is the latest in a series of Covid diagnoses among high-ranking government officials who attended Washington’s Gridiron Club and Foundation Dinner on Saturday night. While Pelosi didn’t attend the annual gala, Hammill told CNBC, more than a dozen DC powerbrokers who were there have since tested positive. That includes Attorney General Merrick Garland, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Reps. Joaquin Castro and Adam Schiff.

Her test result also comes a day after the California Democrat stood next to President Joe Biden at a bill signing event at the White House.

 

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Article URL : https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/07/house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-tests-positive-for-covid-is-not-experiencing-symptoms.html