The White House, Washington on November 10, 2020. – Sipa USA / SIPA
The election night of November 3 at the official residence of the President of the United States will she be at the origin of a cluster? A new case of coronavirus has been detected among the staff of the White House, where several relatives of Donald Trump who attended the evening have already tested positive, the American media announced on Wednesday.
White House political director Brian Jack tested positive for Covid-19 over the weekend, according to the New York Times and CNN. He had spent Tuesday evening following the results of the presidential election to the White House. Another adviser to the president has tested positive, according to the daily, but he does not name him and does not specify whether he was present during election night.
They join in the list the chief of staff of the president, Mark Meadows, the minister of housing and urban development, Ben Carson, and David Bossie, the head of the legal team in charge of the legal actions in several states where the Republicans denounce electoral fraud. The United States recorded a total of nearly 240,000 deaths on Wednesday since the start of the pandemic for more than 10.3 million cases, and currently records more than 100,000 new cases every day.