Mayor of Baltimore Tests Positive for Covid

U.S.|The politician of Baltimore tests affirmative for Covid.

• Oct. 4, 2021, 8:21 p.m. ET

Mayor Brandon M. Scott of Baltimore tested affirmative for Covid-19 connected Monday contempt being vaccinated, his bureau said.

Mr. Scott, 37, was asymptomatic and self-isolating astatine his location successful the city, Cal Harris, a spokesperson for the mayor, said successful a statement connected Monday afternoon.

“This could person been a antithetic concern if Mayor Scott were not vaccinated,” Mr. Harris said.

Mr. Harris added that metropolis wellness officials were doing interaction tracing connected the colleagues that Mr. Scott interacted with astatine outdoor events past weekend.

A spokeswoman for the politician said helium attended 2 events connected Saturday: the opening of a vicinity halfway and a groundbreaking ceremonial for a improvement company. On Sunday, helium made an quality astatine the city’s Parade of Latino Nations.

Zeke Cohen, a subordinate of the Baltimore City Council, said connected Twitter connected Monday that helium was with the politician astatine the parade, but helium aboriginal tested antagonistic for the virus.

The mayor’s affirmative effect came arsenic Baltimore grapples with a important emergence successful caller infections. On Sunday, according to a New York Times database, the mean fig of regular caller cases implicit the past 7 days was 122.

During a plateau astatine the opening of July, the regular mean was 5 caller cases per day. Slightly little than two-thirds of the city’s residents who are eligible for vaccinations are afloat inoculated, according to a Times database.

Mr. Scott has been trying to amended the city’s vaccination rate. He said past period that all metropolis workers indispensable beryllium inoculated by Oct. 18.