Donald Trump's Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Tests Positive For COVID-19 After Wave Of Travel Challenging Election Results

Rudy Giuliani has been spearheading US President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his presidential election loss to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden through a number of lawsuits.

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Dec 7, 2020 / 07:49 AM IST

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Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for COVID-19, the United States president said on December 6, after the former New York mayor's cross-country efforts to persuade Republican state lawmakers to help reverse the presidential election defeat.

The 76-year-old Giuliani is the latest in a long string of people close to the White House, including Trump himself, sickened in a pandemic that has killed more than 2.8 lakh Americans.

"@RudyGiuliani, by far the greatest mayor in the history of NYC, and who has been working tirelessly exposing the most corrupt election (by far!) in the history of the USA, has tested positive for the China Virus," Trump said, using a term for COVID-19 that has drawn backlash. Giuliani did not immediately respond to the matter.

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Giuliani was at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington DC, on December 6, two sources told Reuters. One of them said Giuliani had not been admitted yet.

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