Newsom tests positive for COVID-19, his second infection since the pandemic began
California politics
Laurel RosenhalMarch 8, 2023
California Gov. Gavin Newsom tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday after showing mild symptoms, his spokesman Alex Stack said.
Newsom will work remotely and self-isolate for at least five days, Stack wrote to reporters in a text message. He added that Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, tested negative.
Newsom still plans to participate in a press conference
on
Thursday via Zoom with
California
considerate General Rob Bonta.
The infection is Newsom’s second time with COVID-19; he also had it in May 2022 of last year.
The governor’s illness comes about a week after he lifted California’s COVID-19 state of emergency
had given
granted him broad executive powers to protect the state from an unpredictable and deadly virus, but also became a political flashpoint among people annoyed by the restrictions he imposed early in the pandemic.
As of February 28, more than 12 million Californians, about 1 in 3 people in the state, have tested positive for COVID-19, according to data from the California Department of Public Health. Since the start of the pandemic, 100,424 deaths in California have been linked to the virus.