“The speaker is fully vaccinated and enhanced and is grateful for the strong protection the vaccine provides,” said Pelosi spokesman Drew Hamill. “The speaker will be quarantined according to CDC guidelines and encourages everyone to be vaccinated, strengthened and tested regularly.” People who test positive for the coronavirus should be isolated for five days, according to instructions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which means that Pelosi will need to do so at least until next Monday. Pelosi did not attend the Gridiron Club dinner on Saturday, after which more than a dozen guests – including two cabinet members, two members of Congress and a top aide to Vice President Harris – tested positive for the coronavirus. Among them were Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) And Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.), Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Attorney General Merrick Garland. However, Pelosi, who is the second in a row in the presidency, was in the White House on Tuesday for a healthcare event with President Biden and former President Barack Obama and attended the signing of a bill for a postal reform measure. on Wednesday. . Pictures from both events show her close to the president. According to the White House, Biden came out negative on the coronavirus on Wednesday night and was not considered a “close contact” of Pelosi, as defined by the CDC. “It will continue to be checked regularly. “The president wishes President Pelosi a speedy recovery,” the White House said in a statement. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (California) and President Biden shared a hug on April 5 at a health event. Pelozi tested positive for the coronavirus on April 7. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: The Washington Post) Hammill’s announcement came as Pelosi was due to hold a weekly press conference on Thursday morning. Journalists waited for Pelosi and then started leaving the room as news spread about her positive coronavirus test. The update was later canceled. Spokeswoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.), Pelosi’s closest friend to Congress, said she attended two events with the speaker on Tuesday and Wednesday night, the last of which was a big party in her honor. revelation of a portrait of Greg Walden (R-Ore.), the retired MP who served as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “It was a very big rally, it was a very big rally, but it seemed to be in good shape,” Eshoo told reporters Thursday morning. On Tuesday afternoon, Eshoo organized a dinner attended by the Speaker of Parliament. Despite learning about her close friend’s diagnosis on Thursday morning, Eshoo did not wear a mask during the polls or outside Parliament, a decision that may change soon. “That, it pauses me, it pauses me,” she said, suggesting she would try a test before boarding a plane later today to fly back to her area outside San Francisco. After nearly two years of vigilance wearing a mask, Pelosi turned last month on the day of the Union’s state talk, sitting behind Biden, with Vice President Harris not wearing a mask. Since then, she has mostly not worn a mask, even when some of her senior advisers wore it in public. She is the first of four top leaders in the House of Representatives and Senate to test positive for the virus, but the pandemic has been raging throughout her House in recent months. House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) Contracted the virus two months ago, while Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (DS.C.) tested positive shortly before Christmas as the rise of the omicron variant. At least two junior members of its leadership team, Katherine M. Clark (D-Mass.) And Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), Also tested positive, with Clark announcing its result Wednesday. Pelosi became the 17th member of her parliamentary group to announce a positive result since the Democrats staged a two-day political retreat in Philadelphia on March 10-11, according to a CNN poll. Pelosi also planned to lead a congressional delegation to Taiwan and Japan this weekend, according to officials familiar with the speaker’s plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Hamil said on Thursday that Pelosi’s planned trip “to Asia … will be postponed to a later date”. Pelosi would be the first speaker to travel to Taiwan since spokeswoman Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) Did so in 1997. Shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Biden sent an unofficial delegation of former U.S. defense and national security officials to Taiwan in a bid to show that the United States’ commitment to Taiwan remained “stable,” according to a senior U.S. official. who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the journey next. At the time, the official did not specifically mention Ukraine as the reason for the US visit, but noted that it followed a “long bipartisan tradition” of the presidential administration sending “high-level, unofficial delegations” to Taiwan. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted Taiwan to take steps to boost its military preparedness for a possible Chinese attack. China claims Taiwan is its own and has claimed that one day it could use force to seize control of the self-governing democracy – and Beijing has sharpened its rhetoric in recent months about a possible takeover. The United States has not taken a position on Taiwan’s sovereignty for decades, and the White House has repeatedly argued that the United States opposes any unilateral change in the status quo. Yasmeen Abutaleb, Paul Farhi, Tyler Pager, Roxanne Roberts and Marianna Sotomayor contributed to this report.
