President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19 while campaigning in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden has tested affirmative for nan coronavirus, according to a speaker astatine nan UnidosUS yearly convention broadcast connected nan White House’s YouTube channel.

Biden was slated to speak astatine nan arena successful Las Vegas Wednesday day arsenic portion of an effort to rally Hispanic voters up of nan November election. Unidos US President and CEO Janet Murguía told nan guests that nan president had sent his regrets and could not look because he tested affirmative for nan virus.

The president had antecedently been astatine nan Original Lindo Michoacan edifice successful Las Vegas, wherever he was greeting diners and was scheduled to person an question and reply pinch Univision.