Donald Trump to quarantine after close aide Hope Hicks tests positive for COVID-19
Donald Trump with his aide Hope Hicks
The US PresidentDonald Trump's close aide Hope Hicks has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The news broke out minutes afterTrumpclaimed that the end of the pandemic "is in sight".
Hicks, who iscounselor to President Donald Trump,was recently spotted flying in the Air Force One on Tuesday with the President to the first presidential debate in Ohio.
After her coronavirus tests came out, the spotlight has turned towardsTrump.The President, however, has assured the public that he and the First lady have undergone a COVID test after Hicks tested positive. The first couple has quarantined themselves while they await their test results.
Hicks was also seen aboard theMarine Onealong with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, Dan Scavino and Nicholas Luna. None of them were spotted wearing a face mask.
As of now, there have been no specific steps taken int he White House against the spread of coronavirus since Hicks' announcement. The White House spokesman Judd Deere said "the president takes the health and safety of himself and everyone who works in support of him and the American people very seriously."
He also assure that the White House takes the required "for limiting COVID-19 exposure to the greatest extent possible both on complex and when the president is traveling."