The number of people, who have tested positive for coronavirus at the White House, has gone up further on Saturday as two US Senators, a former advisor to Donald Trump, the President’s campaign manager, and three journalists have tested positive for the COVID-19.

This comes a day after US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he and his wife, first lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19. The President has been receiving treatment at the Walter Reed Military Medical Centre in Bethesda, a Maryland suburb of Washington DC.

Trump and Melania were tested after the President’s top aide Hope Hicks tested positive for the virus. Hicks, 31, is the closest aide of the president to have tested positive with COVID-19. She had travelled with the president on Air Force One earlier this week.

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Hours after Trump’s announcement, Republican Senators Thom Tillis from North Carolina, and Mike Lee from Utah said they have been tested positive for coronavirus.

Tellis, along with Lee, was seen at the White House last Saturday when President Trump announced his Supreme Court nomination.

Several White House staffers have contracted the virus in recent months, including the National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien and Katie Miller, Vice President Pence’s press secretary.

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Former White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway also announced on Twitter that she has tested positive. Tellis, Lee, and Conway had participated in a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House last week, where Trump had nominated judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

Trump Campaign Manager Bill Stepien tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday as well. According to the newspaper Politico, Stepien was experiencing “mild flu-like symptoms.”

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Meanwhile, in a series of memos, the White House Correspondents Association confirmed that three-member journalists have tested positive for COVID-19.

One of the journalists was at the Trump White House press conference on Sunday.

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The second journalist was recently part of the out-of-town travel pool on Saturday for the president’s trip to Pennsylvania but was briefly at the White House earlier in the day for a COVID-19 test.

The reporter began experiencing symptoms on Thursday and tested positive on Friday, the WHCA said.

The third journalist was recently part of the in-town travel pool on Sunday, which included a presidential news conference and a trip to the golf course.

Multiple news outlets, whose correspondents are part of the White House pool said that they are contact tracing and following the procedure for testing and quarantining, depending on the possible exposure.