Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau poses for a group photo with other world leaders during the Summit of the Americas on June 10, 2006

On 13 June local time, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US Health and Human Services Secretary Becerra announced the positive coronavirus test results for Novel Coronavirus. Coincidentally, both of them were in Los Angeles, California, last week for the SUMMIT of the Americas hosted by the United States.

There are many “secret connections”

— Trudeau’s personal social media account: I tested positive for COVID-19 and will be quarantined according to containment requirements.

This is trudeau’s second novel coronavirus infection following a positive test result for the virus on January 31 this year. He arrived in Los Angeles on June 7 and returned to Canada on June 11, announcing on social media on June 13 that he had tested positive for COVID-19. On the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas, Trudeau met with a number of government officials and business people from across the Americas.

▽ Trudeau and Biden

Trudeau and Biden

Trudeau did not wear a mask when he met, hugged and held face-to-face talks with U.S. President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas, according to media releases and photos and video released by trudeau himself.

Trudeau and Dominican President Abinader

▽ Trudeau and California Governor Gavin Newsome

Also on Trudeau’s list of meetings are U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Governor Gavin Newsome, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and leaders of Argentina, Jamaica, Barbados and the Dominican Republic.

Trudeau meets with Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google

At his closing press conference on The evening of June 10, Trudeau sounded hoarse, bloomberg reported.

▷ Becerra (second from the left) and Merck Latin American President (third from the left) are on stage together

This is also the second infection of novel Coronavirus confirmed by us Secretary of Health Becerra on 18 May. He joined Vice President Harris on June 8 for a CEO Summit plenary session on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas to announce the Biden administration’s new initiative on public health cooperation among the Americas.

▽ Participants of the June 8 CEO Summit (from left to right) : Craig, director of policy at Meta, U.S. Vice President Harris, U.S. Secretary of Health Becerra, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken, and Prime Minister Of The Bahamas Davis

The same event was attended by U.S. Secretary of State Blinken, Bahamas Prime Minister Jim Davis and other government officials, as well as Meta’s policy director, Craig, and other corporate executives. None of the photos published by the media were wearing masks.

The Associated Press reported that Becerra tested positive again in such a short period of time because he was infected with the Omicron variant ba.2 or ba.2.12.1, the current dominant strain in the United States, both of which are likely to bypass the immune barrier established by a previous infection and vaccination. It’s also possible that becerra’s system hasn’t been cleansed of the virus since her last infection, even though she’s temporarily negative.

The us state of California, where the event was held, was not in an easy situation

△ New COVID-19 cases confirmed in California since April (data from New York Times)

California, host of the Summit of the Americas, has been on the rise, with more than 440,000 new cases and nearly 1,000 deaths reported in the past month. California’s governor also announced he had tested positive for COVID-19 on May 28, but he came out of quarantine in early June and then attended the Summit of the Americas.

Statistics from The New York Times

The outbreak in California is just a microcosm of the rising trend in the US, where more than 85 million confirmed cases and more than 1 million deaths had been reported as of The evening of June 13. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of new COVID-19 cases in the US has exceeded 100,000 per day.

There has also been more than one Novel Coronavirus “super-transmission event” in the US since April. On April 2, after the Annual Gridiron Club dinner, novel Coronavirus tests were positive for more than 70 people, including the secretary of justice, the Secretary of Commerce, the secretary of agriculture, the mayor of New York and other leading US politicians.

The New York Times reported that the number of confirmed cases increased after the White House correspondents dinner

Novel Coronavirus tests were carried out on us Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and George Kix, chairman and CEO of CBS News, after the White House Correspondents’ dinner on April 30.

At the White House Correspondents dinner on April 30, few of the 2,000 guests wore masks

That dinner, in the face of more than two thousand guests, talk show host Noah was laughing, the political and media people clearly present “took two years to tell everyone the importance of wearing a mask and avoid large-scale indoor rally”, behavior is very different with now, the dinner will be the “most wonderful super transmission event”, a word the results into more. Who knows whether the Summit of the Americas in June will be the subject of the next catwalk satire?