DC Mayor Bowser tests positive for COVID-19

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has tested positive for COVID-19. Bowser made the announcement on Twitter Thursday morning. "Friends - Yesterday, I tested positive for COVID," she tweeted. "After experiencing allergy symptoms this week, I took an at-home test yesterday and a PCR test confirmed the positive result."

WASHINGTON - D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has tested positive for COVID-19.

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Bowser made the announcement on Twitter Thursday morning.

UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 28: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser arrives for a news conference on the covid-19 situation in the District at Judiciary Square on Monday, September 28, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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"Friends - Yesterday, I tested positive for COVID," she tweeted. "After experiencing allergy symptoms this week, I took an at-home test yesterday and a PCR test confirmed the positive result."

D.C. is currently in a ‘low’ COVID-19 Community Level. Weekly case rates have been steadily rising since a low of 51 during the week of March 6 to 110 the week of March 27. COVID-19 positive hospitalizations are at zero, according to D.C. officials.

Officials say over 94 percent of D.C. residents are partially or fully vaccinated.

Residents can get COVID-19 vaccines at any of the eight COVID Centers across the District.