WASHINGTON: Two more members of the Texas parliament who left their country to make limping efforts to pass the limitation of new voting had been tested positively Coronavirus, raising to five infected people in delegates.
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Trey Martinez Fischer from San Antonio said in a statement on Sunday that he had been tested positively.
“ I quarantine until I tested negatively, and I am grateful to only experience very light symptoms, “he said.
Someone who is familiar with the delegation said the number of infected members has increased to five.
The person was not authorized to discuss this issue and requested anonymity.
More than 50 members of the Texas parliament traveled to Washington on Monday a private rented flight.
A caucus official said everything was vaccinated.
Control centers and disease prevention say “ breakthrough infections “_ vaccinated people become infected _ rarely occur.
After the photo shows them on a plane, Republicans and others criticize parliamentarians to travel without masks.
But the federal pandemic guidelines do not require a mask to be worn on a private plane.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who had met last week with a member of the Texas delegation, went to Walter Reed’s military hospital on Sunday for the appointment of a routine doctor, a White House official said.
There was no other information released, and the White House did not respond to questions about Harris’s visit.
After several members of the parliament tested the positive virus, said Harris spokesman Saturday that Harris and his staff were not at risk of exposure because they were not closely related to those who tested positively and added that Harris and his staff were fully vaccinated.
Democrats escape from the country to deny the legislature controlled by the Republic, the quorum needed to pass the voting law.