Michael Pence and Kamala Harris will be required to stand 3.6 metres apart at the debate.
Candidates for Vice President of the United States – Republican Michael Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris – will be staying farther apart from each other than originally planned during the TV debate at the University of Utah on 7 October. CNN reported Friday, citing a source, that this precaution has been taken in response to a new type of coronavirus infestation of US President Donald Trump.
Pence and Harris will be required to stand 3.6 metres apart at the debate. The previous regulations provided for a shorter interval, a television source said.
The debates of the candidates for the post of vice president will last for an hour and a half, they are planned to be divided into 9 segments of 10 minutes, each of which will be dedicated to a separate issue. Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden have scheduled a second and third round of election debates for 15 October in Miami, Florida and 22 October in Nashville, Tennessee.
On Friday night, the 74-year-old US President wrote on Twitter that he and his wife Melanie had been diagnosed with coronavirus. On Friday, White House spokeswoman Kaylie McInani said Trump would be spending the coming days at the Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Maryland as a precautionary measure. Vice President Pence’s Coronavirus test on Friday morning was negative. Harris also did not show any disease caused by coronavirus.