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Top Pentagon official test positive for coronavirus, several contacts await results
Pentagon official installed in a top policy job last week has tested positive for COVID-19, the Pentagon said Thursday, just days after he met with the Lithuanian defence minister, who had contracted the virus.Jonathan Hoffman, the chief Pentagon spokesperson, said Anthony Tata, who is serving as the undersecretary of defence, was tested Thursday after learning that Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis had tested positive. Tata and other senior defence leaders, including Acting Defence Secretary Christopher Miller and the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force, all met with Karoblis either last Friday or Monday.