乔·拜登总统的女儿艾什莉·拜登的尿检呈阳性新冠肺炎(新型冠状病毒肺炎)据一名白宫官员称。
40岁的第一女儿原定于本周与第一夫人吉尔·拜登一起前往拉丁美洲。
据第一夫人的发言人迈克尔·拉罗萨称，总统和第一夫人不算是亲密接触。
白宫新闻秘书郭佳欣·让-皮埃尔在周三的新闻发布会上重申，总统不被认为是他女儿的密切接触者，他女儿已经“大约一周”没有见过他了她不知道总统最后一次检测新冠肺炎病毒是什么时候。
Jean-Pierre告诉记者:“总统在一周内定期进行测试，这是他的医生确定的节奏的一部分。”“如果他的测试因为近距离接触而改变，我们会让你们所有人知道，但他的节奏没有改变。”
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艾什莉·拜登在白宫驻地参加宴会后的白宫记者晚宴...
拉罗沙说，艾什莉·拜登将不再陪同第一夫人出访厄瓜多、巴拿马和哥斯大黎加。吉尔·拜登原定于周三下午前往厄瓜多尔基多。
这是艾什莉·拜登最近几周不得不放弃的第二次出访。在第一夫人出访波兰、罗马尼亚和俄罗斯之前，她被认为是新冠肺炎病毒检测呈阳性者的密切接触者本月早些时候乌克兰。
该机构称，美国卫生与公众服务部部长泽维尔·韦塞拉(Xavier Schmidt)周三也检测出新冠肺炎阳性，他目前正在德国与七国集团(G7)的卫生官员会面。它说，总统不被认为是密切接触者。
随着BA.2颠覆分子在华盛顿的传播，总统核心圈子里的一些人新冠肺炎病毒检测呈阳性最近几周，包括副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯、白宫通讯联络主任凯特·贝丁菲尔德、前新闻秘书珍·普萨基和让·皮埃尔本人。
总统从未被视为亲密接触者。当被问及这怎么可能时，让-皮埃尔星期三重申，在与总统会晤时采取了“额外的预防措施”。因为她今天会见了总统，让-皮埃尔说，她被测试，蒙面和会议是社会距离。
官员们说，现在在白宫校园里，口罩是可选的，尽管与总统的会面通常在社交上是有距离的。白宫官员也强调，总统是最新的COVID助推器。
根据疾病控制和预防中心的指南，如果某人在24小时内与确诊或疑似新冠肺炎患者的距离在6英尺以内至少15分钟，则该人被视为密切接触者。
Ashley Biden, the president's daughter, tests positive for COVID-19
President Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley Biden, has tested positive forCOVID-19, according to a White House official.
The first daughter, 40, was scheduled to travel to Latin America this week with first lady Jill Biden.
The president and first lady are not considered a close contacts, according to the first lady's spokesperson, Michael LaRosa.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reaffirmed in Wednesday's briefing that the president was not considered a close contact of his daughter, who he hasn't seen in "about a week." She did not have guidance on when the president was last tested for COVID-19.
"[T]he president tests regularly throughout the week as part of a cadence as determined by his doctor," Jean-Pierre told reporters. "If his testing were to change because of the close contact, we’d let all of you know, but his cadence has not changed."
Ashley Biden will no longer be joining the first lady on her trip to Ecuador, Panama and Costa Rica, LaRosa said. Jill Biden was scheduled to depart Wednesday afternoon for Quito, Ecuador.
This is the second foreign trip Ashley Biden has had to drop out of in recent weeks. She was considered a close contact of someone who tested positive for COVID-19 before the first lady's trip to Poland, Romania andUkraine earlier this month.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, who is currently meeting with health officials from G-7 countries in Germany, also tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the agency said. The president is not considered a close contact, it said.
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As the BA.2 subvariant has spread around Washington, several people within the president's inner circle havetested positive for COVID-19in recent weeks,includingVice President Kamala Harris, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield, former press secretary Jen Psaki and Jean-Pierre herself.
The president has never been deemed a close contact. When asked how this was possible, Jean-Pierre reiterated Wednesday that "extra precautions" are taken around meetings with the president. Because she had a meeting with the president today, Jean-Pierre said she was tested, masked and the meeting was socially distanced.
Masks are now optional at the White House campus, though meetings with the president are often socially distanced, officials said. White House officials have also stressed that the president is up-to-date on COVID boosters.
Someone is considered a close contact if the person was within 6 feet of an individual with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 for at least 15 minutes over a 24-hour period, per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
