Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s chief of staff Jo Bonner quarantining at home after his wife tested positive for COVID-19.
Ivey spokeswoman Gina Maiola said Friday that Bonner does not have symptoms but is in quarantine at home. Bonner’s wife took a COVID-19 test after attending a visitation for a funeral last Friday in Mobile where she later learned several other attendees had tested positive for the disease caused by the coronavirus. She does not have symptoms of the virus, but the test was positive.
Maiola said Bonner was not with Ivey this week and his wife Janee Bonner has not been around the governor in several months.
“Jo is continuing to work from home and will not be back into the office until the normal CDC protocols for exposure have run,” Maiola said.
This is the first case of known exposure in the governor’s office. On August 6, 2020, Alabama Today reached out to Maiola after Governor Mike Dewine’s false positive Maiola said that the governor has not had to be tested for COVID to date. She noted, “There have been no positive cases among us at this point. We all take our temperatures upon entrance, wear masks, and practice what the governor is asking of the people of Alabama.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report with permission.
