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US Health Secretary Tests Positive for COVID-19


Thu 19 May 2022 | 09:38 AM
NaDa Mustafa

US Health Secretary Xavier Becerra has tested positive for COVID-19, during his visit to Berlin, spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services announced.

In a statement, the spokeswoman added that Becerra ‘is experiencing mild symptoms’, noting that he is ‘fully vaccinated and boosted'

Moreover, Becerra will resume his duties in isolation in Berlin., according to the statement.

It is worth mentioning that, Becerra was in Berlin for a meeting with health ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) nations on Thursday and Friday.

On Wednesday, the White House announced that Ashley Biden, the daughter of US President Joe Biden, had contracted  Coronavirus, “Covid 19,” according to CNN.

American Johns Hopkins University stated that the death toll from the Coronavirus in the United States exceeded one million.

The university saw, on its website today, Wednesday, that such a transgression represents a terrifying milestone for a virus that first appeared in China in late 2019, and killed the first American citizen in early 2020.