Days after US President Joe Biden recovered from COVID, his wife and the First Lady Jill Biden has now contracted the virus.
As per doctors, she has developed 'mild' symptoms of the infection. After testing negative for COVID-19 on Monday during her regular testing cadence, the first lady began to develop cold-like symptoms late in the evening.
She tested negative again on a rapid antigen test, but a PCR test came back positive, informed her communications director Elizabeth Alexander said on Tuesday The first lady tested positive for coronavirus in South Carolina, where she traveled with the president.
She will stay there in a private residence for a few more days. “Close contacts of the First Lady have been notified," her communications director, Elizabeth Alexander, said in a statement “She is currently staying at a private residence in South Carolina and will return home after she receives two consecutive negative COVID tests." She has been advised to complete a course of Pfizer Inc.’s Paxlovid antiviral drugs.