Kamala Harris cancels trips after two people linked to campaign test positive for COVID-19
Harris had planned to campaign Thursday in North Carolina, in Asheville and Charlotte; on Friday in Cleveland; and on Saturday in Pennsylvania, in Allentown and Philadelphia.
The positive tests late Wednesday included a flight crew member, who doesn't work for the campaign, and the senator’s communications director, Liz Allen, according to Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon. Harris wasn’t in close contact with either person within two days of the tests and so faces no obligation to quarantine, Dillon said.
“Regardless, out of an abundance of caution and in line with our campaign’s commitment to the highest levels of precaution, we are canceling Senator Harris’s travel through Sunday, October 18th,” Dillon said. Harris, who scheduled several virtual fundraisers during that period, planned to continue a robust schedule and plans to return to in-person events Monday, Dillon said.
Harris has been participating virtually this week in the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, to join the Supreme Court. The committee is scheduled to vote Oct. 22 on the nomination.
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