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 "After experiencing symptoms for the first time this morning, I
tested positive for COVID-19 shortly thereafter, & will now
quarantine for the next 10 days," Price, who is vaccinated, said on
Twitter.
"I'm feeling under the weather but am grateful for the protection
from severe illness offered by safe and effective vaccines."
Price joined more than half a dozen meetings with Blinken last week
in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly,
including with senior officials from Brazil, Britain, Turkey and the
European Union.
In a regular briefing with reporters conducted by phone on Monday,
Department deputy spokesperson Jalina Porter said Blinken had tested
negative as recently as Monday morning and none of the other members
of the traveling party were currently exhibiting symptoms.
Asked if the department had notified foreign delegations that met
with Price last week, Porter said officials had consulted with the
State Department's medical unit and concluded only those who had
contact with Price from Saturday onward were at risk of exposure.
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 "I just do want to underscore
that spokesperson Price hasn't been in contact
with any foreign delegations since Thursday,
which is nearly 100 hours before he actually
started to experience any symptoms," Porter
said, adding that Price was not with Blinken or
other State Department officials on Saturday or
since then.
The State Department did not have any details on
where Price contracted the virus, she added.
Price spent a good part of last week within the
close circle of Blinken, including Deputy
Secretary Wendy Sherman and Undersecretary for
Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, who have held
their own separate meetings with a number of
foreign delegations.
(Reporting by Simon Lewis, Humeyra Pamuk, Daphne
Psaledakis and Mohammad Zargham; Editing by
Doina Chiacu, Chizu Nomiyama and Nick Zieminski)
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