Nancy Pelosi tests positive for Covid only a day after visit to Biden in White House to sign bill

HOUSE Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for Covid-19 only a day after she visited President Joe Biden in the White House to sign a bill.

A maskless Pelosi and several other senators and congress members joined Biden on Wednesday for the signing of the Postal Reform bill.



Pelosi's deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, said the house speaker is asymptomatic and is fully vaccinated and boosted.

"After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic," Hammill tweeted.

"The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided."

Pelosi's chief of staff said she will follow CDC guidelines and quarantine.

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The White House said on Wednesday that president Biden had last tested negative on Monday.

A live C-SPAN camera captured the moment members of the press learned of Pelosi's positive test while waiting for her at her weekly press conference.

"Pelosi tested positive," a reporter is heard saying.

Another replies: "Are you s****ing me."

"This is why we wear masks," responds another reporter.

"Is she in the building?" asked a reporter in the press room.

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"Okay, so we don't need to be here anymore," another journalist says, "this might be the worst place," responds someone else.

Nancy Pelosi is the leader of the Representatives and is simultaneously the House's presiding leader of the body's majority party.

As such, she is second-in-line of succession for the presidency, after vice president Kamala Harris.

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Pelosi was elected to her fourth (second consecutive) term as Speaker of the House on January 3, 2021.

The Democrat from California first served as House Speaker from 2007 to 2011.

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