Jill Biden ends isolation after testing negative for COVID-19: First lady will leave South Carolina to join Joe in Delaware TODAY
- First lady Jill Biden tested negative for COVID-19 twice
- She will end isolation after five days, her office announced on Sunday morning
- Jill will fly to Delaware later in the day to reunite with President Joe Biden
- The initial positive test came as the Biden’s wrapped up their family vacation at Kiawah Island off the coast of South Carolina
- It was also only 10 days after Biden finished isolating from his own bout of COVID
Jill Biden, 71, is no longer isolating for COVID-19 after two consecutive negative tests, her office announced Sunday.
After isolating in South Carolina for five days following her family’s vacation to Kiawah Island last week, the first lady will leave for Delaware later in the day to reunite with President Joe Biden, 79.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines state that after five days from initial positive test, an asymptomatic individual can end isolation.
Jill’s office revealed Monday that she tested positive after experiencing some mild symptoms last Sunday evening – following a bike ride with her husband and granddaughter Finnegan Biden on Kiawah Island beach and shopping with her daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen later that day.
First lady Jill Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Sunday and will end isolation after five days
Despite the close contact, President Biden did not test positive for COVID and left South Carolina on Monday to come back to the White House to sign the Inflation Reduction Act into law.
Biden left later Monday evening for Delaware. Jill will join him there on Sunday.
The first lady’s positive test came just 10 days after her husband finally ended his isolation following his own bout of COVID and a rare rebound case, which extended his isolation at the White House while Jill remained in Delaware.
Biden, grandson Beau Biden, son Hunter Biden and daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen arrive back in Washington, D.C. on Monday, August 16, 2022 without Jill after she tested positive for COVID-19 and had to remain in South Carolina to isolate
Both the president and first lady are fully vaccinated and double boosted against coronavirus.
Jill’s office said Thursday that she was ‘steadily feeling better’ and was working through her recovery in her capacity teaching English at a community college in Northern Virginia.
‘She continues to make progress and is steadily feeling better,’ the first lady’s communications director Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement. ‘This morning she is participating in NOVA meetings via zoom in preparation for the upcoming semester.’