(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) U.S. Transportation Secretary Buttigieg Tests Positive for New Crown
China News Agency, Washington, June 6 (Reporter Sha Hanting) U.S. Transportation Secretary Buttigieg said on the 6th local time that his new crown virus test result was positive.
Buttigieg posted on social media that day that he currently has mild symptoms and will be isolated in accordance with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines while working remotely.
The U.S. Department of Transportation said in a statement that Buttigieg was fully vaccinated and boosted.
He has not had close contact with US President Joe Biden in recent days.
According to US media reports, Buttigieg attended a meeting of more than 1,300 people in Michigan last week.
According to the organizers, at least 15 people who attended the conference have tested positive for the new crown.
According to the "New York Times" statistics, Buttigieg is the fifth member of Biden's cabinet to be infected with the new crown virus recently.
Since May, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken, Health Secretary Becerra, Labor Secretary Walsh and Interior Secretary Harland have been infected with the new crown virus.
Previously, US Vice President Harris, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others were also infected with the new crown virus.
According to statistics from the CDC, the number of new coronavirus cases in the United States has been on the rise since April.
The average daily number of new cases in the past 7 days has exceeded 98,000, much higher than the 25,000 in early April.
The death toll has basically declined since February this year, with an average daily death toll of 247 in the past seven days.
According to the latest statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 17:00 on the 6th, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of the new crown in the United States exceeded 84.831 million, and the number of deaths exceeded 1.008 million.
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