(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) White House Chief Medical Adviser Fauci tested positive for the new crown

　　China News Agency, Washington, June 15 (Reporter Sha Hanting) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases issued a statement on the 15th local time, saying that Fauci, the director of the institute and the chief medical adviser of the White House, tested positive for the new crown virus that day. .

　　Fauci currently has mild symptoms and will work in isolation from home, the statement said.

Fauci will follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines and physician recommendations before returning to the office after a negative COVID-19 test.

　　The statement also said that Fauci had previously completed the new crown vaccination and received two booster doses.

He has not been in close contact with U.S. President Joe Biden or other senior administration officials recently.

　　Fauci, 81, is one of the most authoritative infectious disease experts in the United States. He has been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and has served as an adviser to seven U.S. presidents.

　　Recently, many senior officials of the Biden administration have been infected with the new crown virus, including US Secretary of State Blinken, Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg, and Secretary of Health Becerra.

Previously, US Vice President Harris, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others were also infected with the new crown virus.

　　According to CDC statistics, since April, the number of new new crown cases in the United States has been on the rise. 25,000 cases.

In terms of the number of deaths, it has basically shown a downward trend since February this year. There were 367 new deaths on the 14th, and the average daily death toll in the past 7 days was 276.

　　According to the latest statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 17:00 on the 15th, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of the new crown in the United States exceeded 85.888 million, and the number of deaths exceeded 1.012 million.

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