US Presidents Joe Biden. File photoWASHINGTON, Mar 16 U.S. President Joe Biden said his deputy, Kamala Harris, was absent from a planned event because «the first lady's husband» fell ill.
"Slightly changed the order among present on stage: the husband of the first lady got the coronavirus", Biden said at an event at the White House.
His wife Jill — the first lady — corrected the president. «That's right. She's right. It's me!» Biden reacted to the laughter of the audience. Earlier, the White House reported that Kamala Harris' husband, the second gentleman Douglas Emhoff, had contracted the coronavirus, his wife, as indicated, passed a negative test. 
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