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They live together and are currently together. This has to mean he has been exposed.

Only a matter of time I suppose until he tests positive. I wish them both a speedy recovery.

"Also on the advice of doctors, he will not be tested at this stage since he has no symptoms. For the same reason, doctors say there is no risk to those who have been in contact with him recently."

He's also putting himself in 14 day self quarantine, for those skimming comments

…but isn’t it asymptomatic?

Sounds crazy. He and Trump should be both tested and given vitamin C, D, and zinc.

Just go easy on the vitamin A, he seems to have plenty of that.

But they aren’t testing him at the moment. They’re waiting until he shows symptoms?

Maybe he won’t show symptoms but still be contagious?

Perhaps I'm missing something, but why wait for symptoms? Why not test him anyway? Is there any downside to testing? If not, then seems outrageous not to test the PM whose wife has recently tested positive.

The test may be more likely to be a false negative in the early stages of infection. As a result, it may be better to quarantine people who have been exposed without testing them and only test them after they develop symptoms. Otherwise you may be telling someone who has been exposed and is infected that they're not, and then they don't bother to quarantine themselves and go infect other people.

According to Chinese reports, the body part from which you take samples affect the result pretty significantly. There are people who tested negative multiple times from throat swabs but positive from lung fluid or anal swabs.

Not enough tests to go around? So preserve them for who needs them.

Is this peak government dysfunction?

Why would you think this is disfunction? He's acting on advice of a doctor and in any case, it seems to be a wise use of scarce resources. He's in isolation for two weeks so what does it matter? Save the test for someone who needs it.

I wish them fast recovery too.

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