2 children of California governor test positive for COVID-19

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Two of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s children person tested affirmative for the coronavirus and his household is pursuing “all COVID protocols,” his bureau announced Friday.

“The Newsoms proceed to enactment masking for unvaccinated individuals indoors to halt the dispersed and advocator for vaccinations arsenic the astir effectual mode to extremity this pandemic,” said a connection from Erin Mellon, spokesperson successful the governor’s office.

The little connection said Newsom, his woman Jennifer Siebel Newsom and their different 2 children had since tested antagonistic for COVID-19 but didn’t supply immoderate different details, including however they were exposed.

All 4 of the governor’s children are nether 12, the property erstwhile children are allowed to beryllium vaccinated nether national regulations.

The announcement comes lone days aft Newsom handily defeated an effort to callback him that was partially driven by the COVID-19 pandemic that shuttered overmuch of the authorities for much than a year. The callback gained steam aft Newsom was caught successful November astatine a lobbyist’s day enactment astatine a swanky Napa Valley edifice — unmasked and successful a ample enactment that violated his ain societal distancing orders.

However, Newsom received astir 64% of the ballot successful Tuesday’s election, according to preliminary results.

Republicans moving to regenerate Newsom opposed masking and vaccine mandates but Newsom doubled down connected them and argued that GOP opponents would endanger important efforts to dilatory the dispersed of the virus, calling the callback “a substance of beingness and death.”