Garland attended an event with FBI Director Christopher Wray hours before the positive result. He was at a D.C. dinner with hundreds of VIPs on Saturday.
Highlights
- Attorney General Merrick Garland tested positive for Covid just hours after speaking in person at a news conference with FBI Director Christopher Wray and other top Biden administration officials.
- Biden’s most recent Covid test, taken on Monday, came back negative, the White House said Wednesday.
- Vice President Kamala Harris is considered a close contact of President Joe Biden, a DOJ official told CNBC.
- Biden and his press aides Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre had Covid in recent weeks.
- Garland is fully vaccinated and boosted against Covid and will work from home while isolating for five days, the Department of Justice said in a statement.