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White House chief of staff tests positive for Covid-19

Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is the latest administration official to contract the disease
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If you were sleeping, (as opposed to say, staring fixedly at screens), you might have missed the news a few hours ago that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has tested positive for Covid-19, becoming the latest member of Donald Trump's inner circle to get coronavirus.

It is not immediately clear how Meadows - who has often appeared at public events without a face mask - was infected.

The disease has now killed some 230,000 Americans. The US set a third straight daily record for new cases on Friday, with more than 127,000 infections.

The country's coronavirus outbreak was a key policy battleground in the election run-up, and contributed to a surge in postal and early in-person voting.

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