US President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, has tested positive for coronavirus, the White House has confirmed.
In a statement, the government said Mr O’Brien had “mild symptoms and has been self-isolating and working from a secure location off site.
“There is no risk of exposure to the president or the vice-president. The work of the National Security Council continues uninterrupted,” it added.
O’Brien, 54, is the highest-ranking official in Mr Trump’s administration known to have tested positive.
A number of people in and around the administration have also caught the virus in the past, including a military member who works as a White House valet, Mr Pence’s press secretary Katie Miller, and a helicopter squadron Marine.
O’Brien travelled to Paris this month to discuss foreign policy issues with European counterparts, and gave a speech in Arizona in June comparing Chinese President Xi Jinping with Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
Source:Fiilafmonline/BBC
