U.S. transportation secretary to quarantine after security agent tests positive for COVID-19

Washington (US), February 9: U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will quarantine for 14 days after a member of his security detail tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.
The agent had been in close contact with Buttigieg "including this morning prior to the agent's positive result," said Department of Transportation Chief of Staff Laura Schiller in a statement.
Buttigieg tested negative Monday and has had no symptoms, said the statement.
The secretary has received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in recent weeks, and will receive the second dose when his quarantine is completed, it said.
Buttigieg, 39, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and former Democratic presidential candidate, was sworn in as the transportation secretary last week.
Source: Xinhua