US First Lady, Jill Biden is infected with the coronavirus. She is currently experiencing mild symptoms.
US First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID on Monday evening and is experiencing mild symptoms, the White House has said. The 72-year-old has been vaccinated and has taken the booster shots. “She will remain at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware,” the White House says.
As per the media report, Joe Biden has tested negative for the virus. He is due to travel to India for the G20 summit and so far no changes have been made to his foreign travel.
"Following the First Lady’s positive test for COVID-19, President Biden was administered a COVID test this evening. The President tested negative. The President will test at a regular cadence this week and monitor for symptoms," the White House has said in a press release.
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Meanwhile, COVID cases are surging across the US. BA.2.86 variant, nicknamed Pirola, is a cause for concern as it is the highly mutated variant of Omicron. As per a report by Yale Medicine says: "This variant, which has unofficially been nicknamed “Pirola,” a combination of the Greek letters Pi and Rho, has more than 30 mutations to its spike protein compared to XBB.1.5, a variant of Omicron that had been the dominant strain in the United States before being surpassed recently by EG.5. The spike protein is how the coronavirus enters human cells."
BA.2.86 was first detected in late July in Denmark and appeared in the U.S. in August.
Currently, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed the variant under "variant of interest" category. "BA.2.86 may be more capable of causing infection in people who have previously had COVID-19 or who have received COVID-19 vaccines," the US CDC says.
The common symptoms that health experts are urging people to be aware of are runny nose, sneezing, cough, headache, and mild fever.
