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THE US FIRST LADY "JILL BIDEN" TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID19

 The US First Lady "Jill Biden" was tested positive for Covid-19 and developed the symptomst, the white House said on Tuesday, two weeks after her husband Joe Biden contracted the virus for a second time.

 The wife of the president was tested negative on Monday but developed “cold-like symptoms late in the evening,” her communications director "Elizabeth Alexander" said in a statement.Alexander said a subsequent rapid antigen test was negative, but a more detailed PCR test was was confirmed positive.

The first lady has been prescribed a course of the oral antiviral pill Paxlovid and will  fobe isolated for atleast five days.She “is double-vaccinated, twice boosted, and only experiencing mild symptoms,” Alexander added.

Jill Biden was tested positive while on holiday in South Carolina, where she stays  at a private residence, and will return to the White House after two consecutive negative tests, her aide said.

President Biden, who turns 80 in November, has recently recovered from two separate bouts of the coronavirus.He was first tested positive on July 21 and continued to carry out his duties while isolating at the White House.After four days of negative tests, he again received a positive result on July 30 and entered isolation a second time.

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