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Tue Oct 13, 2020, 12:59 PM Oct 2020

U.S. Army chief returns to Pentagon after self-quarantine

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Army's chief of staff returned to the Pentagon on Tuesday, in a sign that the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff were starting to move towards ending their self-quarantine following a coronavirus scare at a recent top-level meeting.

Two senior military officials who attended the meeting earlier this month tested positive for COVID-19, leading to almost all of the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to go into self-quarantine last week.

"I was tested this morning and all negative and I've been cleared by the docs (doctors) to come back in," U.S. Army Chief of Staff General James McConville said during a press conference at the Pentagon.

McConville said members of the Joint Chiefs would decide when to end their quarantine depending on the advice of their doctors and where they had been.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-army-chief-returns-to-pentagon-after-self-quarantine/ar-BB19YV6A?li=BBnb7Kz



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