KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A press corps member travelling with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on his journey to Southeast Asia examined positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in Kuala Lumpur and was self-isolating, the State Department stated on Wednesday.
Blinken and senior employees have additionally been examined on all stops of his worldwide tour together with on arrival in Kuala Lumpur late on Tuesday and so they all have been destructive, spokesman Ned Price stated.
The top U.S. diplomat was in Jakarta on Tuesday earlier than heading to Malaysia. He was on account of proceed on to Bangkok late on Wednesday forward of conferences with Thai officers the next day.
Blinken gave a joint information convention on Wednesday with Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah.
A spokesperson for Malaysia’s overseas ministry stated it was knowledgeable of the COVID-19 case by the U.S. embassy early on Wednesday and the person had been instantly quarantined.
“The individual was not concerned and has not participated in any of Secretary Blinken’s programmes in Kuala Lumpur,” the spokesperson stated.
“Other shut contacts had been re-tested with outcomes all destructive as of 12 hours in the past.”
On Twitter, the U.S. embassy in Jakarta stated all members of the touring press corps had examined destructive there on Monday afternoon.
(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk and Rozanna Latiff; Editing by Martin Petty)
