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(CNN) --
US First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for a rebound case of COVID-19, her deputy communications director Kelsey Donohue confirmed to CNN.
Biden, who is currently in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, tested positive for covid-19 again with an antigen test on Wednesday.
He had tested negative in a routine test on Tuesday.
Donohue says the first lady has had no recurrence of symptoms.
She added that she was notified of a "small number of close contacts" that Biden was recently with.
Biden first tested positive on August 15 while vacationing on Kiawah Island, South Carolina.
The first lady had "cold-like symptoms," according to Elizabeth Alexander, Biden's communications director, and was put on a course of the antiviral drug Paxlovid, which can trigger a rebound case of covid-19 in some people. several days after a negative result.
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Biden tested negative on two consecutive tests this Sunday and traveled to South Carolina to meet with President Joe Biden in Delaware.
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President Biden tested negative on Wednesday, a White House official told CNN.
Following US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, the president will wear a mask for 10 days indoors because he is considered a close contact, the official said. .
The president also took Paxlovid when he had covid-19 last month, eventually testing positive for a rebound case of covid-19, after initial negative tests.
Alexander told CNN that Jill Biden will remain at the family's beach house in Delaware until she has two consecutive negative test results again.
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