US VP’s husband positive for COVID-19

US Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House has announced.

Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative, but is curtailing her schedule as a result of her husband’s positive test.

Harris spokeswoman Sabrina Singh on Tuesday said Harris would not participate in a planned Equal Pay Day event at the White House with President Joe Biden “out of an abundance of caution”.

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“The vice president tested negative for COVID-19 today and will continue to test,” she said.

Biden and Harris appeared together on Tuesday afternoon and mingled with lawmakers at an event marking the signing of a $US1.5 trillion ($A2.1 trillion) government funding measure.

“He’s feeling very well, I’m told,” Biden said Tuesday evening at the event, noting Harris had to skip.

“Let’s send her our love,” he told attendees.

Harris and Emhoff both received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine weeks before taking office and their second dose just days after Inauguration Day in 2021. They received booster shots in late October.

Fully vaccinated and boosted people have a high degree of protection against serious illness and death from COVID-19, particularly the most common and highly transmissible Omicron variant.

Before Emhoff’s diagnosis was public, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden had tested negative on Sunday.

US VP’s husband positive for COVID-19
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