Psaki said she recently had two socially-distant meetings with President Joe Biden, but he is not considered a 'close contact' and has tested negative. FOX13
"Today, in preparation for travel to Europe, I took a PCR test this morning," she tweeted Tuesday. "That test came back positive, which means I will be adhering to CDC guidance and no longer be traveling on the President’s trip to Europe."
Psaki's diagnosis comes just days after second gentleman Doug Emhoff tested positive for COVID-19 last week. Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative, but is curtalied her schedule as a result of her husband’s positive test. Biden will first travel to Brussels and then to Poland to meet with leaders there, Psaki said in a statement Sunday night.White House officials have said Biden has no plans to travel to Ukraine. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, while in Poland this month, briefly crossed into neighboring Ukraine in a show of solidarity alongside that country’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has pleaded for the U.S. to provide his military with more aircraft and advanced air-defense systems. NATO and the United States have rejected his appeals to establish a "no-fly zone" over Ukraine to suppress Russian air power, saying it would put Western forces in direct conflict with Russian ones.
The 7-day moving average for cases hovers around 27,000. That's down from when the number hovered around 809,000 in mid-January.
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