Trump will ‘keep his distance’ from Pence when VP returns to West Wing today due to White House virus outbreak
DONALD Trump will reportedly be keeping his distance from Mike Pence when the vice president returns to the White House on Tuesday amid coronavirus fears.
A senior aide confirmed Pence will steer clear of the president after his press secretary Katie Miller was diagnosed with , reports say.
Pence is set to head up a closed meeting this afternoon at 2.30 pm with his Coronavirus Task Force fellow members, according to the daily guidance schedule issued to the media.
Government officials are now of the deadly bug at after Miller - who is married to top Trump aide Stephen Miller - tested positive.
It's been reported that is particularly "spooked" by the contagion and increasingly isolated in the Oval Office as more officials quarantine.
“A very high-ranking individual may have also been impacted!”
The news comes after members of the president's task force, including , are currently in isolation after coming into contact with an infected White House aide.
The news comes as Fauci told the former Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders "the numbers of deaths are very likely higher" than the current US death toll of 81,000 on Tuesday.
As Pence gets back to business, Trump fumed over how "crazy" House Speaker if he and Pence were struck down by the deadly disease.
said they "must be very careful" after a journalist wrote that would serve the country if they became ill.
Trump responded to the reporter's which said: "Pelosi would be third in line to serve as president if Trump, Pence become incapacitated by ."
"Then we must be very careful," Trump raged. "Crazy Nancy would be a total disaster, and the will never be a Communist Country!"