Trump 'not concerned' as coronavirus cases rise in DC area

Cases of coronavirus touching on Washington, D.C., area arose Saturday, but President Donald Trump said he wasn’t concerned that virus was getting closer to nation’s capital and White House.

Maryland officials warned Saturday that a person who attended recent Conservative Political Action Conference in suburb of Oxon Hill h tested positive for virus. Both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence spoke at conference, but White House said re was indication that eir was in close proximity to infected attendee.

Asked if he was concerned about virus getting closer, Trump said: “, I’m t concerned at all. , I’m t. We’ve done a great job.” When asked wher he would continue campaign rallies in light of CPAC case, president replied, “We’ll have tremendous rallies.”

Trump waved off or questions to join a dinner for president of Brazil, who was visiting Trump in south Florida.

A Marine at Virginia’s Fort Belvoir became first military case of coronavirus reported inside U.S., a Pentagon official said on background prior to anuncement. Marine was being treated at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, located south of Washington, and h recently returned from an overseas assignment, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a tweet.

District of Columbia recorded its first case on Saturday. District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser said testing at public health lab of D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences yielded its first presumptive positive coronavirus case.

On Friday, political group AIPAC said two people who attended its Washington conference this past week h tested positive for coronavirus.