Biden-Harris campaign has come to a halt as staffers test positive for coronavirus.
Two people on Kamala Harris' campaign plane — her communications director and a flight crew member — have tested positive for the coronavirus, upending the candidate's travel plans in the final weeks of the contest.
Campaign officials said that although Harris had tested negative and was not in close contact with either of the people who tested positive, they will cancel her in-person campaign events until Monday, including three stops she had planned in the battleground state of North Carolina, where early voting began Thursday.
Harris also canceled a planned trip Friday to Ohio, where early voting has already begun.
Presidential nominee Joe Biden's schedule was unchanged because he has had no contact with the infected staff members, campaign officials said.
Later in the day, the campaign announced that an employee of the aviation company that charters Biden's plane had also tested positive for the coronavirus. Medical advisors said there was no need for the former vice president to change his plans or quarantine because he "did not even have passing contact" with the person, who sat at least 50 feet away from Biden on the plane, a Boeing 737, and wore a mask at all times they were onboard.
Biden would proceed with plans to participate in a televised town hall meeting Thursday evening as planned, campaign officials said.
Harris, too, had no need to quarantine because she "was not in close contact, as defined by the CDC, with either of these individuals during the two days prior to their positive tests," campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon said in a statement, referring to the two positive tests on her plane. Harris was never within six feet of either of the people and that she and all staff members flying on her campaign plane wore N-95 masks, O'Malley Dillon said.
"Regardless, out of an abundance of caution and in line with our campaign’s commitment to the highest levels of precaution, we are canceling Senator Harris’ travel through Sunday."
O'Malley Dillon said.
Harris will return to in-person campaigning on Monday" and conduct virtual events in the meantime.
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