Worldometer counting has put the total number of deaths in the United States as at Saturday at 80,040 as Coronavirus cases surged to 1,347,318 with 238,080 recoveries.
This is as multiple US media report also have it that an aide to America’s first daughter Ivanka Trump has tested positive for the dreaded virus.
The aide works as a personal assistant to Ivanka.
But the news reports also dispelled the possibility of a virus contagion.
According to CNN, the unidentified assistant had been working from home for nearly two months and had not come into contact with Ivanka for nearly two weeks.
The news about the virus status of another aide raised concerns that the virus could be circulating in circles that are in close contact with the 73-year-old President Donald Trump.
Ivanka works as a senior adviser to her father in the democracy propagating America.
Both Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, who is also a Trump adviser have tested negative for the virus, according to The Hill.
Kushner also works as a senior adviser to President Trump and has access to him.
So far two Trump aides have tested positive for the virus.
Katie Miller, who is Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary and married to Stephen Miller, a close adviser to President Trump, tested positive on Friday.
An unidentified military valet tested positive on Thursday.
