61-year-old has not been in close contact with anyone who has tested positive. FMTNews Covid19
WASHINGTON: US Vice-President Mike Pence, next in line for the Oval Office, tested negative for Covid-19, hours after President Donald Trump announced that he was infected and went into quarantine, Pence’s spokesman said on Friday.
A source at the Commission on Presidential Debates, which oversees the events, said there were no plans to scrap the debate after Trump’s positive test. Pence, who was last seen publicly with Trump on Monday at a Rose Garden news conference on coronavirus testing, would take over as acting president should Trump become incapacitated while undergoing medical treatment.Then-president George W Bush temporarily transferred power to vice-president Dick Cheney twice, for a few hours each in 2002 and 2007, while undergoing colonoscopies.
Pence filled in for Trump Friday on a conference call with governors about the coronavirus pandemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told 1010 WINS radio.
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