White House Chief of Staff, Meadows, tests positive for COVID-19

The White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has tested positive for COVID-19, BBC reports.

There is no official statement yet on how Mr. Meadows – who has often appeared at public events without a face mask – got infected.

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Mr. Meadows had traveled with the president on the final day of the campaign tour and was at an election night party attended by dozens of Trump supporters at the White House, the report added.

According to analysts, the surge in the cases of coronavirus in America was a key policy battleground in the run-up to the 3 November election and has contributed immensely to in-postal and early in-person voting.