Keisha Lance Bottoms: Atlanta mayor says she tested positive for coronavirus despite having no symptoms

The mayor said she had no symptoms
Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has tested positive for the virus
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Imogen Braddick6 July 2020

Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says she has tested positive for Covid-19 despite having no symptoms.

Sharing the news on Twitter, the mayor said the virus "has literally hit home".

"I have had NO symptoms and have tested positive," she wrote.

She gave no information about her diagnosis, whether she is in quarantine and when she was tested.

"It leaves me for a loss of words because I think it really speaks to how contagious this virus is, and we’ve taken all the precautions that you can possibly take," she told MSNBC. "I have no idea when and where we were exposed."

The news comes days after former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain was taken to a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, with "serious" coronavirus symptoms after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump.

A statement posted on Mr Cain’s Twitter account said he was taken to hospital after developing "serious" symptoms but is "awake and alert".

"I realise people will speculate about the Tulsa rally, but Herman did a lot of travelling the past week, including to Arizona where cases are spiking," Dan Calabrese, who has been editor of HermanCain.com, wrote on the website.

"I don’t think there’s any way to trace this to the one specific contact that caused him to be infected. We’ll never know."

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