US Homeland Security secretary tests positive for COVID

WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tested affirmative Tuesday for COVID-19 and is isolating astatine home, the bureau said.

The caput has been afloat vaccinated and is experiencing lone “mild congestion,” DHS said successful a statement.

The bureau said helium volition enactment from location nether the protocols recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease and Prevention.

DHS said declaration tracing is being done to cheque for imaginable vulnerability among others.

Mayorkas was with President Joe Biden Saturday astatine the yearly National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service astatine the Capitol, lasting connected the podium betwixt archetypal woman Jill Biden and FBI Director Christopher Wray. The White House said they were not determined to person been successful adjacent interaction with the DHS secretary, fixed that the memorial work was outside.

The affirmative trial requires him to cancel a scheduled travel this week to Colombia, wherever helium was going to articulation Secretary of State Antony Blinken for discussions successful portion centered connected efforts to code what officials are calling an unprecedented travel of migrants, peculiarly from Venezuela and Haiti, passim the hemisphere.

DHS, the third-largest Cabinet agency, oversees the nation’s superior migration enforcement agencies, among different responsibilities.