Press to be tested for Covid-19 today at White House

Anders Hagstrom reports in the Daily Caller,

White House staff will administer fast-result coronavirus tests to members of the press attending Thursday’s daily press briefing, the Trump administration announced.

The testing comes after the White House Correspondents’ Association reported that one of its members was experiencing symptoms of the coronavirus Wednesday after attending a briefing the day before. Results are expected to come in before the 5pm briefing. The individual remains unnamed, but is the second WHCA member known to be tested for coronavirus. The first tested negative in March.

...The White House has already established a policy of testing those who enter the grounds to meet with President Donald Trump or Vice President Mike Pence, though that policy did not include the press. The administration has not indicated that testing for the daily briefings will become a new recurring policy. (RELATED: The CIA Is Trying To Find China’s Real Coronavirus Numbers)

Trump and Pence have both already tested negative for the virus in recent weeks, with the president having taken the test twice.

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