Kamala Harris undergoes ‘routine’ check-up after meeting Democrats infected with COVID

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Walter Reed Medical Center on Sunday for a “routine medical appointment” after coming into contact last week with three Democratic lawmakers in Texas who tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Fox News .

News of his trip to hospital in Bethesda, Md., Just outside the nation’s capital, has arrived as she tweeted: “This Delta variant is no joke. To get vaccinated.”

Harris met with Lone Star State Democrats and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in his Capitol Hill office last Wednesday.

Symone Sanders, her spokesperson, said the Veep had not come into close contact with sick lawmakers.

“Based on the timeline of these positive tests, it was determined that the Vice President and her staff present at the meeting were not at risk of exposure as they were not in close contact with those who were tested. positive and therefore do not need to be tested or quarantined, ”Sanders said on Saturday, noting that Harris and his staff had all been vaccinated.

Her office did not immediately respond to questions from Fox News about whether she was showing symptoms.

Chris Turner, chairman of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, said on Saturday that the three anonymous members would self-quarantine for 10 days.

One of them has mild symptoms of COVID-19.

Texas Democrats left the state House of Representatives last Monday and flew on two chartered flights to Washington, DC, to defeat a Republican-backed electoral reform bill in depriving the chamber of a quorum.

While in Washington awaiting the special legislative session called by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Democrats met with congressional lawmakers to urge them to approve the For the People Act and the Voting Rights Act. John Lewis.

Democrats also left the State House on May 30 in the closing hours of the regular legislative session ahead of a vote on electoral legislation, leaving the chamber short of the required number of lawmakers to conduct a vote.

Texas Democrats have faced criticism from Republicans for shirking their constituency representative duties, and Abbott has threatened to have them arrested when they return to Texas in August.