WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White Home on Monday directed all people getting in the West Wing, where the day-to-day operations of President Donald Trump’s administration are carried out, to use masks after 2 assistants checked favorable for the coronavirus, administration authorities stated.
U.S. President Donald Trump resolves a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak press rundown in the Rose Garden at the White Home in Washington, U.S., May 11,2020 REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
The new standards, released in a memo to the president’s staff on Monday afternoon, show a tightening of treatments at the greatest levels of the U.S. federal government over worries that Trump and Vice President Mike Pence might be exposed to the infection.
Trump’s military valet and Pence’s press secretary both tested favorable for the coronavirus last week.
The 73- year-old president stated on Monday he did not think those cases recommended the White House system had actually broken down.
” I felt no vulnerability whatsoever,” Trump said, adding he felt the circumstance was managed “effectively.”
Still, the president said he would go over preserving some distance from Pence, maybe by communicating with him by phone, for an amount of time. Pence worked at the White Home on Monday however did not attend a news confere