On the rebound: US First Lady has Covid for second time in a month
US first lady Jill Biden has tested positive in a rebound case of Covid-19 but is not experiencing any symptoms while President Joe Biden continues to test negative for the virus, officials say.
First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 again in an apparent “rebound” case, after she initially tested negative for the virus over the weekend. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Biden tested positive on Wednesday by antigen testing, following a negative test the previous day, and the White House’s medical unit has notified close contacts, her deputy communications director said.
“The First Lady has experienced no re-emergence of symptoms, and will remain in Delaware where she has re-initiated isolation procedures,” her deputy communications director Kelsey Donohue said in a statement.
Jill Biden, 71, first tested positive for Covid-19 on August 16.
She had ended her first isolation on August 21 after a course of Paxlovid, an antiviral medication.
President Joe Biden tested negative for Covid-19 on Wednesday morning in antigen testing, the White House said.
A White House official said the president would wear a mask for 10 days when indoors and near others.
The White House will also maintain President Biden’s increased cadence of testing and report those results, the official said.
