IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has tested positive for Covid-19, a spokesman said Thursday, stressing she had only "mild symptoms."
"IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has tested positive for Covid-19. She is experiencing mild symptoms and is working remotely while isolating at home," the Washington-based crisis lender's spokesman Gerry Rice said in a statement.
"She is fully vaccinated and boosted," he added.
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Georgieva joins the ranks of Washington elites who have tested positive lately amid a new rise in daily coronavirus infections.
This group includes multiple members of Congress and Vice-President Kamala Harris, who tested positive on Tuesday.
At the time, she said she was not considered to have been in close contact with President Joe Biden.
