BREAKING: First lady Jill Biden will end her COVID-19 isolation after receiving two consecutive negative tests and quarantining for five days, the White House announced.
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First lady Dr. Jill Biden delivers remarks during a Cancer Moonshot initiative event in the East Room of the White House, Feb., 02, 2022.First lady Jill Biden will end her COVID-19 isolation on Sunday after receiving two consecutive negative testsHer spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement that she will leave South Carolina and join President Joe Biden in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he is vacationing.
It does not appear that the first lady's case was serious. She experienced cold-like symptoms Monday and was prescribed the antiviral treatment Paxlovid, her spokeswoman said. She was also able to join meetings via Zoom Thursday. First lady Dr. Jill Biden delivers remarks during a Cancer Moonshot initiative event in the East Room of the White House, Feb., 02, 2022.He was considered a close contact of the first lady and, as such, started masking while indoors around others for 10 days starting from Jill Biden's positive test. President Biden has since tested negative for COVID-19.: He first tested positive on July 21 and experienced mild symptoms like a sore throat and cough.