DHS Secretary Mayorkas tests positive for COVID-19

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FILE - In this May 25, 2021, record photo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks with the media extracurricular of the Little Haiti Cultural Center successful Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Posted at 3:08 PM, Oct 19, 2021

and past updated 2021-10-19 16:08:49-04

Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tested affirmative for COVID-19 Tuesday.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said Mayorkas was tested arsenic portion of regular pre-travel protocols.

Mayorkas was scheduled to question with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Colombia aboriginal this week, according to CNN.

“He is experiencing lone mild congestion; helium is afloat vaccinated and volition isolate and enactment astatine location per CDC protocols and aesculapian advice,” said DHS spokesperson Marsha Espinosa.

Espinosa added that declaration tracing is underway.

Mayorkas is the archetypal Latino and migrant to pb the Department of Homeland Security.