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Wis. gubernatorial candidate is positive for COVID

21 September 2021
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2021-09-21 10:39

Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor Rebecca Kleefisch tested positive for COVID-19 after being exposed at church earlier this month, her campaign said on Monday.

Kleefisch is a cancer survivor and a former two-term lieutenant governor. She is seeking to take on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers next year. Kleefisch launched her campaign on Sept. 9 and has been on the campaign trail since.

Three days later on Sept. 12, she was exposed to someone with COVID-19 while attending church in Hudson, which is in northwest Wisconsin just across the border from Minnesota, Kleefisch spokesman Alec Zimmerman said. Kleefisch was informed of the exposure on Sept. 16, took a test and the next day received a positive result. She was vaccinated earlier this spring, Zimmerman said. New cases of COVID-19 have been on the rise across Wisconsin due to the more contagious delta variant. The seven-day average of new cases was 2,741 as of Sunday.

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