“This morning when I began running a slight fever, I immediately took a COVID test which has come back positive,” he wrote.
The GOP congressman said he will continue to work from home. He said he notified the Office of the Attending Physician in Congress and is in the process of reaching out to people he has seen in recent days.
Kemp’s press secretary Cody Hall did not name the individual Kemp had come in contact with.
After being notified Friday, Kemp was tested for Covid-19, Hall said.
CNN has reached out to Kemp’s office.
Ferguson is one of over a dozen House lawmakers on Capitol Hill from both parties who have previously announced that they had tested positive for coronavirus dating back to the early days of the pandemic. A handful of Republicans, including President Donald Trump, tested positive for the virus in September after attending a White House nomination ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.