Mayorkas, Homeland Security Secretary, Tests Positive for Virus

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Politics|The homeland information secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, tests affirmative for the coronavirus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/us/politics/alejandro-mayorkas-covid-positive.html

Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the caput   of the Department of Homeland Security, astatine  the White House successful  March.
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Eileen Sullivan

  • Oct. 19, 2021, 3:43 p.m. ET

Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the caput of the Department of Homeland Security, tested affirmative connected Tuesday greeting for the coronavirus, his spokeswoman said.

The secretary, who is vaccinated, learned of his corruption during regular investigating up of a overseas trip.

“Secretary Mayorkas is experiencing lone mild congestion,” the department’s spokeswoman, Marsha Espinosa, said successful a statement. “He is afloat vaccinated and volition isolate and enactment astatine location per C.D.C. protocols and aesculapian advice.”

Ms. Espinosa said that officials person begun tracing those who had been successful caller interaction with Mr. Mayorkas.

Mr. Mayorkas was adjacent President Biden astatine an outdoor lawsuit connected Saturday for the National Peace Officers Memorial Service, Ms. Espinosa said.

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