A suspected COVID-19 case within the White House press corps means there will be even fewer reporters in the room during daily coronavirus press briefings.
Journalists gather in the briefing room before an update from the White House coronavirus task force.Journalists gather in the briefing room before an update from the White House coronavirus task force.The daily press briefings of the White House coronavirus task force are about to become less crowded.
The White House Correspondents' Association had already thinned out seats in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in order to comply with social distancing guidelines. Now, a suspected COVID-19 case among the White House press corps means there will be even fewer reporters in the room. WHCA president Jonathan Karl of ABC News announced Monday that an unnamed reporter who attended four briefings earlier this month has a suspected case of the virus.
"We ask again that all members who can stay home or work remotely please do so," Karl wrote in an advisory on behalf of the WHCA board."Please do not come to the White House if you do not have a workspace or an assigned seat on that day. And please DO NOT come into the White House if you are feeling at all ill."
In the announcement, the WHCA further reduced available seats in the briefing room, mostly limiting the press to journalists working as"pool" reporters representing other TV, radio, print and wire outlets each day.for COVID-19. Both President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have been tested in recent weeks, and both tests were negative.
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