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A top aide to US Vice-President Mike Pence has tested positive for Covid-19 one day, following another White House staff member was diagnosed with the virus.
Pence's press secretary Katie Miller tested positive on Friday, a day after US President Donald Trump's valet.
The White House has begun daily testing for Mike Pence and Donald Trump, and has claimed to be taking "every single precaution to protect the president".
The US death toll is now over 76,000 and states are beginning to reopen.
Six members of Mr Pence's team were abruptly taken off his plane, Air Force 2, after it was held on the tarmac outside Washington, DC for over an hour on Friday (May 8), as he prepared to travel to Iowa to meet religious leaders.
According to an unnamed US official cited in the media pool report, the staff members had had recent contact with Miller, the wife of Trump aide Stephen Miller. The president and vice-president had not.
"Katie tested very good for a long period of time and then all of a sudden today she tested positive.", Trump told reporters, during a meeting with Republicans at the White House.
Asked about the possibility of an outbreak in the White House, Trump told reporters, "All you can do is take precautions and do the best you can."
(Source: BBC)
