US President Donald Trump has decided that he will be tested daily for the coronavirus after one of his valets tested positive for the deadly disease.
A military aide of Trump, whom the White House officialsdescribed as a personal valet, tested positive for coronavirus.
The valet, a member of the military, would have had veryclose contact with Trump, and assisted him with his food, clothes and otherpersonal needs, CBS News reported.
Trump, however, denied having close contact with the sickvalet.
“I’ve had very little personal contact with thisgentleman,” Trump told reporters on Thursday in the Oval Office. “Iknow who he is, good person, but I’ve had very little contact.”
(Vice President) Mike (Pence) has had very little contactwith him. But Mike was tested and I was tested. We were both tested,”Trump said.
Responding to questions, Trump said he, the vice presidentand other staff of the White House would be tested for coronavirus every day.
“I just had a test. In fact, I had one yesterday andone today, and it is negative. Mike justhad a test and it is negative,” he said on a day when the US passed yetanother grim milestone of having 75,000 deaths due to the coronavirus.”But they do the tests and it just showsyou that the fallacy — it is what I have been saying — testing is not aperfect art. No matter what you do, testing is not a perfect art. So we testonce a week. Now we are going to go testing once a day. But even when you testonce a day, somebody could — something happens where they catchsomething,” the president said.