Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, has said he is not self-quarantining despite possibly being exposed as well. Julia Brownley, a Democrat from California, is also self-quarantining. Several other Republican members of Congress are also under self-quarantine, including Sen. Williamson said Meadows is not experiencing symptoms but is following precautionary recommendations. The statement provided no additional details about the potential exposure. The possible encounter occurred at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month.
Trump named Meadows as his next chief of staff last week. Meadows, R-North Carolina, has tested negative for the disease but will remain at home until Wednesday "out of an abundance of caution," Meadows' chief of staff, Ben Williamson, said in a statement Monday. Mark Meadows, R-NC, speaks as Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, testifies before the House Oversight and Reform Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Feb. Mark Meadows, said Monday that he is under self-quarantine after possibly "coming into contact" with a person who tested positive for COVID-19. President Donald Trump's incoming chief of staff, U.S. The city has the bulk of the country’s more than 80,000 confirmed cases, and authorities sent thousands of medical workers and built several prefabricated isolation wards to deal with its mass of COVID-19 patients. State media reported Xi arrived in the morning in Wuhan, which has been under lockdown along with several nearby cities since late January in a disease-containment measure. Initial failures to react quickly were pegged on municipal and provincial-level officials who have since been replaced. The disease's spread in China cast scrutiny on Xi’s leadership, as he was conspicuously absent from the public eye during the early days of the crisis. The visit came as people gradually began to return to work in other parts of China while the virus spreads to most of the world, seriously impacting travel, markets and the global economy. He is expected to inspect epidemic prevention and control work and visit medical workers, community volunteers, patients and others on the front lines. Stanford also said it will move in-person classes to an online format for the last two weeks of winter quarter.īEIJING - President Xi Jinping visited China's virus epicenter Tuesday for the first time since cases of a then-unidentified respiratory illness emerged in the city of Wuhan in December. Princeton said Monday that it will move to virtual instruction after spring break and will decrease the number of gatherings on campus. Rice University in Houston this week announced in-person instruction is canceled this week and it is preparing for the possibility of delivering most of its classes remotely. UC Berkeley said starting Tuesday it is suspending most in-person classes and will be offering classes remotely. The city and county of San Francisco on Thursday announced two presumptive positive cases. UC San Diego said Monday that starting in Spring Quarter all lecture and discussion courses will be delivered remotely. San Francisco State said that all face-to-face courses will be suspended, but the campus is not being closed.
OSU in a statement noted that while there are no campus-associated cases of COVID-19, "we know that there are at least three confirmed cases in the state of Ohio, and we expect that there will be more." It is suspending face-to-face instruction and moving to virtual interactions through at least March 30. A growing number of colleges, including The Ohio State University and San Francisco State University, have suspended face-to-face classes amid fears of growing coronavirus cases in the United States.