As the United States sets daily records for coronavirus cases, President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was reported to contract COVID-19.

Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Tests Positive for COVID-19

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Senate Holds Confirmation Hearing For Amy Coney Barrett To Be Supreme Court Justice WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 12: White House chief of staff Mark Meadows departs the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Capitol Hill on October 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. Barrett was nominated by President Donald Trump to fill the vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away in September.

On Friday, two senior administration officials confirmed that Meadows was diagnosed with coronavirus that killed over 236,000 Americans this year. 

According to Aljazeera, when the chief of staff came down with the coronavirus, the officials offered no detail on his current condition. Bloomberg News first reported Meadows' diagnosis of COVID-19.

The Trump top adviser regularly traveled with the president in the run-up to Election Day. Without a mask, Meadows' last appeared in public on Wednesday, when Trump declared victory in the presidential race prematurely.

The former North Carolina legislator has been one of Trump's close aides when the president came down with the virus more than a month ago. Trump was briefly hospitalized at the time. He was being tested daily and was able to maintain his regular work schedule. 

Nick Trainer, a top campaign aide for Trump, also tested positive for coronavirus, an unidentified source told Reuters news agency.

On Friday, more than 126,000 new COVID-19 infections were reported in the U.S., the third day in a row, the country has recorded over 100,000 cases in a single day.

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Meadows' positive diagnosis marked the latest case of the coronavirus in the West Wing. Not more than two weeks, the vice president's chief of staff, Marc Short, and at least three other aides tested positive for COVID-19.

Apart from Trump, first lady Melania Trump and almost two dozen others were also diagnosed with COVID-19 in early October. This was after Trump had a large gathering of people not wearing face masks. The event includes the ceremony of announcing Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court.

Trump's national security adviser Robert O'Brien also contracted the virus. In July, another Trump's friend, a former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, died of COVID-19 after attending one of Trump's rallies. 

The coronavirus cases in the U.S. has increased by over 50 percent in the past two weeks. According to an analysis of Johns Hopkins University data, the seven-day rolling average for daily new cases rose from 61,166 to 94,625 in November. 

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As per CNN, Meadows drew criticism from fellow aides for not having a better communication regarding the scale of the coronavirus outbreak at the White House.

Many officials said they felt that they had been left on their own to analyze how to proceed, while the White House insisted it conducted contact tracing amid the spike in COVID-19 cases. 

Meadows encouraged officials to keep the coronavirus cases quiet and hope to avoid a widespread contagion inside the executive branch. However, Meadows' efforts mostly fell short as senior aides to Vice President Mike Pence revealed that they, too, were infected with coronavirus last month. 

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