JUST IN: The White House is conducting contact tracing after a cafeteria worker tested positive for COVID-19, three Trump admin. officials tell NBCNews.
Part of the White House complex, the Eisenhower Executive Office Building sits just across West Executive Ave. from the West Wing. It houses the offices of much of the senior White House staff, including officials from the coronavirus task force, the vice president’s office, the National Security Council and several economic policy shops.
Unlike the White House Mess, which is located inside the West Wing and run by the U.S. Navy, the cafeteria in the neighboring EEOB is run by a government contractor. The White House referred questions about the situation to the General Services Administration, which maintains the building. “All proper protocols were in place by the vendor including masks, gloves, plastic shielding at check out, and no dine-in service,” a GSA spokesperson tells NBC News. “The White House Medical Unit has done contact tracing and determined that the risk of retransmission is low.”
The GSA did not say how many staffers might have been potentially exposed at the commissary or how long it will remain closed.
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