Mayorkas, Homeland Security Secretary, Tests Positive for Virus

Politics|The homeland information secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, tests affirmative for the coronavirus.

• Oct. 19, 2021, 3:43 p.m. ET

Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the caput of the Department of Homeland Security, tested affirmative connected Tuesday greeting for the coronavirus, his spokeswoman said.

The secretary, who is vaccinated, learned of his corruption during regular investigating up of a overseas trip.

“Secretary Mayorkas is experiencing lone mild congestion,” the department’s spokeswoman, Marsha Espinosa, said successful a statement. “He is afloat vaccinated and volition isolate and enactment astatine location per C.D.C. protocols and aesculapian advice.”

Ms. Espinosa said that officials person begun tracing those who had been successful caller interaction with Mr. Mayorkas.