More than 130 White House Secret Service agents quarantining under COVID protocol, report
Agency won't confirm how many agents are in quarantine.
More than 100 Secret Service agents are in quarantine due to either positive COVID-19 tests or contact with an individual who tested positive, according to media reports Friday.
The Washington Post reported more than 130 agents were isolating due to coronavirus protocol.
A spokesman for the Secret Service told Just the News on Friday that the agency "remain[s] prepared and fully staffed to carry out our critical integrated protective and investigative missions, neither of which has been degraded by the pandemic. "
"For privacy and operational security reasons," the statement continued, "the Secret Service is not releasing how many of its employees have tested positive for COVID-19, nor how many of its employees were, or currently are, quarantined."