Mega-church pastor positive with Covid after White House Christmas party
Jentezen Franklin says he was invited to the White House by president and FLOTUS
(jentzen/Instagram)
A Georgia mega-church pastor has contracted coronavirus simply days after attending a White House Christmas party.
Jentezen Franklin, of Free Chapel in Gainsville, was absent from Sunday service after testing positive for the illness, his colleague, pastor Javon Ruff, stated.
“We want to make you aware that pastor Franklin has come in contact with Covid, but he is doing perfectly fine,” Mr Ruff told the congregation, according to local media reports.
He added: “He actually is doing great. He went and got tested and his test came back positive so he is doing the right thing to do and staying quarantined and continuing to be distanced.
“We’ll continue to pray and lift him up.”
Mr Ruff also announced that the church’s Christmas Eve service will be held virtually “out of an abundance of caution.”
Video exhibits a minimum of 100 individuals gathered on the service, a lot of whom didn’t put on masks.
Six days in the past, Mr Franklin posted to Instagram a photograph of himself and his daughter on the White House.
“Thank you @flotus and @realdonaldtrump for inviting us. It was gorgeous! Merry Christmas everyone!” he wrote in a message accompanying the put up.
There isn’t any proof to counsel that Mr Franklin acquired contaminated with coronavirus on the White House party.
The coronavirus is constant to brush huge swathes of the US.
Health officers on 20 December reported 179,801 new infections and 1,422 deaths nationwide within the earlier 24 hours, based on New York Times information.
In Georgia, the place Mr Franklin delivers his sermons, there have been 5,175 new circumstances and two deaths, the information exhibits.
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