US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Austin Tests Positive For COVID-19
3 January
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reported Sunday that he has contracted Covid-19, as the highly infectious Omicron variant sweeps across the United States.
Austin's symptoms were mild and he will quarantine at home for the next five days, the Pentagon chief said in a statement.
Austin said he is fully vaccinated and boosted, which had rendered the infection much more mild than it would otherwise have been.