US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tests positive for coronavirus


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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has postponed a trip to Asia – including a reported planned stopover in Taiwan – after testing positive for Covid-19, her office said on Thursday. The announcement came following media reports in Taiwan and Japan that Pelosi, Democrat of California, would travel to Taiwan after a trip to Japan, becoming the first House Speaker to visit the self-governed island in 25 years. “A planned congressional delegation to Asia, led by [Pelosi], will be postponed to a later date,” Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, said on Twitter following the diagnosis. A planned Congressional delegation...