Kamala Harris tests positive for Covid-19 but Biden not ‘close contact’

Kamala Harris tests positive for Covid-19 but Biden not ‘close contact’
US vice president Kamala Harris (Yalonda M James/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Vice president Kamala Harris has tested positive for Covid-19, underscoring the persistence of the highly contagious virus even as the US eases restrictions in a bid to revert to pre-pandemic normality.

Ms Harris’s press secretary Kirsten Allen said neither President Joe Biden nor first lady Jill Biden was considered a “close contact” of the vice president in recent days.

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