With the announcement he made late on Monday that he has tested positive for coronavirus, Cable News Network (CNN) presenter, Richard Quest, has become the third employee of the media organisation to contract the deadly disease.
Before him Chris Cuomo and Brooke Baldwin, both of the CNN, had also tested positive for COVID-19.
All of them are based in New York in the US which already has a death rate of 12, 654 from COVID-19.
The presenter revealed the development in a tweet on his verified handle where he, however, said he has only a few symptoms of the disease.
According to Quest, he would reserve his prayers and thoughts for those who have harsher symptoms of the COVID-19 as he called on people to stay safe.
“I have caught coronavirus. I am blessed in that I have few symptoms – just a cough,” the tweet read. “I am saving my prayers and thoughts for those less fortunate. Stay in. And protect lives.”
Already there are over 40, 000 deaths from the pandemic in the United States.