Staffers for Trump, Pence test positive for coronavirus

Two White House staffers with access to both the president and vice president tested positive for coronavirus this week, raising concerns that the illness, which has thus far been largely kept out of the upper ranks of the Trump administration, may be spreading there to some extent.

A valet for President Trump tested positive for the disease on Thursday. Trump said he did not regularly come into close contact with the driver, who begin exhibiting symptoms of infection on Wednesday. The president did confirm on Friday that he had been in the same room with the valet on Tuesday. 

Trump said on "Fox & Friends" on Friday that he has been tested twice for the disease after the valet's diagnosis. Both tests came back negative. 

Vice President Pence's press secretary Katie Miller, meanwhile, also tested positive for the disease; Miller is the wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller. A subsequent test administered to Pence came back negative, as did tests administered to half a dozen staffers in the vice president's office. 

An assistant to Ivanka Trump has also reportedly tested positive for the disease, though that aide had not been around the president's daughter in several weeks. 

Pence on Thursday said he and the president will now be tested every day for the virus.