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Ivanka Trump’s Personal Assistant Tested Positive for COVID-19

The assistant’s diagnosis comes after several White House staffers contracted the virus.

Ivanka Trump’s personal assistant has tested positive for COVID-19, one of several coronavirus cases to hit the inner circle of the Trump administration, CNN reports. The personal assistant has reportedly worked from home for nearly two months now, reducing the risk that the president’s daughter has come in contact with the virus. Two White House staffers have also tested positive in recent days: Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary and a U.S. Navy member who serves Trump his meals. Nearly a dozen members of the Secret Service are also infected. As the president encourages states to reopen their economies and resume business as usual, the presence of the virus in the White House has raised questions of whether American leaders have themselves been exposed. “It's a little bit strange, but it's one of those things,” the president said of the diagnosis of his aide.