Dozens of US Secret Service Agents Will Be Quarantined After Trump’s Tulsa Rally

By Staff, Agencies

Dozens of US Secret Service agents will be quarantined as a precaution following US President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the CNN reported.

The mass quarantine has led to the decision that Secret Service agents involved with presidential trips must be tested for coronavirus for the next couple of weeks, according to an email sent to agency personnel. The email sent out Wednesday was confirmed by a law enforcement official, according to CNN. Agents must now be tested 24 to 48 hours before a presidential trip, the email said. The new testing mandate will be in place until July 4.

The law enforcement official said the number of quarantined agents is on the "low" side of dozens. A Secret Service official, however, said the quarantining will not impact the agency's operations. The news was first reported by The Washington Post.

Asked about the decision to test all agents on presidential trips for coronavirus, the Secret Service official said protecting agency personnel is critical during the Covid-19 pandemic.

"We want to make sure that we have a healthy workforce and that we are protecting our people," the official said. "This is good common sense."

Relatively, a US Secret Service source who worked advance for Saturday's rally and is now quarantining told CNN that agents from Dallas and Houston worked the event as well, and they had been warned before the trip from those field offices that they would need to quarantine when they got home.

The steps come after two Secret Service agents who attended the rally tested positive for coronavirus.