US House Speaker Philip Gunn tests positive for coronavirus

US House Speaker Philip Gunn tests positive for coronavirus

House Speaker Philip Gunn says he has tried positive for the coronavirus as state wellbeing authorities report in excess of 200 new contaminations and five passings connected to the pandemic.

Gunn, a Republican, said in a video presented Sunday on Facebook that he got tried in light of the fact that he had been in closeness to another individual from

that I excessively have tried positive for Covid," Gunn said.

Gunn said he considered everybody that he had been in nearness to as of late to tell them of his analysis and intended to self-isolate.

Gunn is the state's most elevated positioning political figure to freely uncover a positive test for the coronavirus.

He didn't state who the other House part was.

The Mississippi Department of Health posted its most recent coronavirus insights Sunday.

The state recorded 226 new cases through Saturday bringing the all out number of affirmed and likely contaminations to 30,900 over the state.