COVID-19 live updates: Biden tests negative after press secretary contracts virus - ABC News

U.S. President Joe Biden has tested negative for COVID-19, after White House press secretary Jen Psaki contracted the disease.

White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Scotland on Monday morning that Biden took a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test on Sunday, which came back negative. A negative PCR test was required for entry to the United Kingdom.

U.S. President Joe Biden adjusts his face mask as he and the European Commission's president, Ursula von der Leyen (not pictured), make a joint statement to speak about steel and aluminium tariffs, on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit summit in Rome, Italy, on Oct. 31, 2021.

Psaki, who is fully vaccinated, revealed in a statement on Sunday evening that she tested positive for COVID-19 and has been experiencing "mild symptoms." She said she chose not to travel with Biden to the Group of 20 summit in Rome after members of her household tested positive last week. Jean-Pierre has instead accompanied the president on his high-stakes trip overseas.

Psaki said she quarantined and tested negative on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; but on Sunday, she tested positive.

Biden will arrive in Glasgow on Monday for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26.

-ABC News' Sarah Kolinovsky and Ben Siegel

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