- Title: State Department spokesperson Ned Price tests positive for COVID
- Date: 27th September 2021
- Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (FILE- AUGUST 20, 2021)(STATE TV) STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON, NED PRICE, WALKING TO LECTERN, TAKING HIS MASK OFF PRICE ADDRESSING JOURNALISTS VARIOUS OF MASKED JOURNALISTS ASKING QUESTIONS PRICE PUTTING HIS MASK BACK AT END OF BRIEFING WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (FILE - AUGUST 12, 2021) (STATE TV) MASKED JOURNALIST ASKING QUESTION PRICE SPEAKING PRICE PUTTING HIS MASK BACK AT END OF BRIEFING
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- Keywords: COVID Ned Price State department coronavirus spokesperson vaccines
- Location: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES / INTERNET
- City: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES / INTERNET
- Country: USA
- Topics: Health/Medicine,United States
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- Story Text:U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said he tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday (September 27) after experiencing symptoms and is isolating for 10 days.
Price had been in close contact last week with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his meetings at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Price announced the positive test result in a Twitter post.
The State Department said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had tested negative for COVID-19 after Price had tested positive.
Price joined more than half a dozen meetings with Blinken last week in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
In a call with reporters, Department deputy spokesperson Jalina Porter said Blinken had tested negative as recently as Monday morning and none of the other members of the traveling party were currently exhibiting symptoms.
Price also spent a good part of last week within the close circle of Blinken, including Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman and Undersecretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, who have held their own separate meetings with a number of foreign delegations.
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