{"id":14462,"date":"2020-05-11T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T06:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=14462"},"modified":"2020-05-11T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T06:40:20","slug":"us-vp-not-self-isolating-continues-work-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/14462","title":{"rendered":"US VP not self-isolating, continues work: White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><strong>Ankara<\/strong><\/h6>\n<div>\n<p>US Vice President Mike Pence continues to work at the White House and is not self-isolating after his press secretary tested positive for the novel coronavirus, his spokesperson said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vice President Pence will continue to follow the advice of the White House Medical Unit and is not in quarantine,&#8221; Devin O&#8217;Malley said following a report by the Bloomberg news website that the vice president preferred to stay home &#8220;out of an abundance of caution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pence had not publicly announced any such move but did not take part in a meeting Saturday with President Donald Trump and top military officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Additionally, Vice President Pence has tested negative every single day and plans to be at the White House tomorrow,&#8221; O&#8217;Malley added.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Trump said Katie Miller, Pence&#8217;s spokeswoman and wife of senior aide Stephen Miller, had tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The White House announced Thursday that an unidentified personal valet who worked closely with Trump had tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he &#8220;had very little contact with this person,&#8221; noting he has been tested twice since Wednesday and the results were negative.<\/p>\n<p>Valets are members of an elite military unit and often work very close to the president and the first family.<\/p>\n<p>After originating in Wuhan, China last December, the virus, officially known as COVID-19, has spread to at least 187 countries and regions. Europe and the US are currently the worst-hit regions.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic has killed over 282,500 people worldwide, with more than 4.09 million infections, while recoveries exceed 1.4 million, according to figures compiled by US-based Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara US Vice President Mike Pence continues to work at the White House and is not self-isolating after his press secretary tested positive for the novel coronavirus, his spokesperson said Sunday. &#8220;Vice President Pence will continue to follow the advice of the White House Medical Unit and is not in quarantine,&#8221; Devin O&#8217;Malley said following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14463,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14462\/revisions\/14463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}