Sen. Kamala Harris has canceled campaign travel until next week after two people connected to former Vice President Joe Biden’s White House bid tested positive for COVID-19.
Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon confirmed her team found out Wednesday that Liz Allen, Harris’s communications director, and a non-staff flight crew member had contracted the coronavirus.
Harris won’t quarantine because she hasn’t been in close contact with the pair, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dillon said. But the California senator and Democratic vice presidential nominee won’t take part in in-person events on her agenda until Monday out of an abundance of caution.
“She will keep a robust and aggressive schedule of virtual campaign activities to reach voters all across the country during this time,” Dillon wrote in a statement Thursday.
“After being with Sen. Harris, both individuals attended personal, non-campaign events in the past week,” Dillon added. “Under our campaign’s strict health protocols, both individuals had to be tested before returning to their work with the campaign from these personal events.”
Harris has returned two negative PCR tests since Oct. 8, including on Wednesday. She was due to fly to Asheville and Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday.
Doug Emhoff, her husband, won’t travel on Thursday, but will resume his in-person events on Friday since he was never exposed to the two positive cases and has tested negative three times.
