WILMINGTON: One of President-elect Joe Biden’s closest advisers tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday (Dec 17), according to his transition team.

Louisiana Representative Cedric Richmond, who is set to resign from Congress to join the incoming Biden administration as a senior adviser, tested positive two days after traveling to Atlanta to attend a campaign rally that Biden headlined for Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and the Reverand Raphael Warnock, Biden transition spokesperson Kate Bedingfield said in a statement.