(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) US House Speaker Pelosi tested positive for the new crown

　　China News Agency, Washington, April 7 (Reporter Sha Hanting) The office of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement on the 7th local time, saying that Pelosi tested positive for the new crown virus.

　　Pelosi's office spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement that Pelosi tested positive for the new coronavirus that day and is currently asymptomatic.

Pelosi has previously completed the new crown vaccination and has received a booster shot.

　　Hamilton also said that Pelosi will be quarantined as required by the CDC.

Travel to Asia will be delayed.

　　It is reported that Pelosi attended the signing ceremony of a bill with US President Biden at the White House on the 6th.

　　The White House issued a statement on the 7th saying that Biden and Pelosi had only "brief contact" in the past two days, so Biden was not a close contact of Pelosi.

The statement also said that Biden tested negative for the new crown virus on the 6th.

　　On the same day, the mayor of Washington, D.C., Bowser also announced that his new crown virus test result was positive.

　　Recently, as Washington further eases epidemic prevention restrictions and various gatherings increase, the number of new new crown cases has shown an upward trend.

　　Several senior U.S. government officials and members of Congress have recently been diagnosed with the new coronavirus.

On the 6th, U.S. Commerce Secretary Raimondo and Attorney General Garland tested positive for the new crown virus.

At least six members of Congress, including Schiff and Castro, tested positive for the new crown this week.

　　According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at present, the subvariant BA.2 of the Omicron strain has become the dominant strain circulating in the United States, accounting for 72% of new cases.

Some experts said that the virus strain may bring new risks to epidemic prevention and control.

　　According to data from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 14:00 on the 7th, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new crowns in the United States exceeded 80.267 million, and the number of deaths reached 984,000.

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