Jill Biden tests POSITIVE for COVID during family vacation in South Carolina 

Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing ‘mild symptoms’, the East Wing announced on Tuesday morning. 

‘She’s doing well,’ President Joe Biden told reporters when he landed back in Washington D.C.  

The first lady’s positive diagnosis comes as the Bidens wrapped up their family vacation in Kiawah Island, South Carolina – and just 10 days after President Biden, 79, finally ended isolation from his bout of coronavirus.

Biden wore a face mask when he boarded and disembarked Air Force One for the journey from South Carolina back to the nation’s capitol. He will do so for the next 10 days, the White House said, as he’s considered a ‘close contact’ to the first lady.

Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa, who had been on the vacaction and traveled back with the president, also wore face masks. 

Jill Biden, 71, remains in South Carolina to stay in isolation, according to her office. 

She will stay at a ‘private residence in South Carolina and will return home after she receives two consecutive negative COVID tests,’ her office said.

She has started a round of Paxlovid treatment. The first lady is fully vaccinated and doubled-boosted.

President Biden remains in the clear of the virus so far, receiving a negative antigen test result on Tuesday morning. 

But he will have his testing frequency increased as he is considered a close contact to his wife.

‘Consistent with Centers for CDC guidance because he is a close contact of the First Lady, he will mask for 10 days when indoors and in close proximity to others,’ the White House said.

‘We will also increase the President’s testing cadence and report those results.’

Jill Biden’s spokesperson Elizabeth Alexander said the first lady tested negative for coronavirus on Monday morning, before she started experiencing ‘cold-like symptoms’ later Monday evening. 

Her antigen test, which she took after beginning to experience symptoms, came back negative. But a subsequent PCR test yielded a positive result. 

‘Close contacts of the First Lady have been notified,’ Alexander noted. 

This is Jill Biden’s first time having COVID, the East Wing said. She kept her distance from her husband when he had the virus last month, staying in Delaware while he was isolating at the White House. 

She was scheduled to travel to Florida on Thursday for a Warriors Games event but canceled those plans.

The first lady did not join the president, Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen when they went to the Beach Club on Kiawah Island on Monday night.

The day prior, however, Jill was pictured on a bike ride with President Biden and their granddaughter Finnegan, daughter of Hunter Biden.

Later on Sunday afternoon she was spotted shopping with Finnegan and Cohen at the Freshfields Village shops on Kiawah Island.

President Biden, who is also fully vaccinated and double boosted, first tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, July 21.

White House Physician Kevin O’Conner released daily letters on the president’s condition, noting that throughout his infection he experiences symptoms like a runny nose, cough, sore throat and body aches.

After isolating for the minimum five days, Biden tested negative on July 26 and 27.

He gave a speech in the Rose Garden on July 27 with a hopeful message for boosted Americans: They can now ‘live without fear’ of the virus.

The president, however, came down with a rare rebound case on July 30, forcing him back into isolation until August 7, when he returned to Delaware to be reunited with his wife. 

President Biden will keep his normal Tuesday schedule, the White House said. He will spend just hours in Washington to sign the inflation Reduction Act before leaving for his home in Wilmington, Delaware, later Tuesday evening.