Harris tests negative for coronavirus after close contact
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative for the coronavirus on Friday following her close contact earlier this week with an assistant who later tested positive, her office said.
Harris, who is spending the vacation in Los Angeles, had tested negative on Wednesday after learning that the assistant who had accompanied her throughout the day on Tuesday had tested positive.
Her office said she would be tested again on Friday. A pair of tests – a rapid test and a more sensitive lab test – found no trace of the coronavirus, his office said.
Harris is fully vaccinated, received a COVID-19 booster vaccine dose, and is routinely tested under White House COVID-19 protocols. She is due to be tested again on Monday.
The assistant is also fully vaccinated and boosted, and had tested negative earlier this week and every day for the previous week, Harris’s office said.
Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, delivered donuts and Christmas greetings to firefighters at Los Angeles Fire Station 94 on Friday.
“You are so special and we really appreciate you and we thank you,†she told them.
Emhoff also tested negative on Friday, Harris’s office said.