The White House is in peril as it has not enforced strict social distancing guidelines for staffers after several staff members close to the president and his inner circle have got infected with COVID-19.

But it is rapidly increasing testing for those around President Donald Trump including his daughter Ivanka Trump, whose personal assistant has tested positive for coronavirus.

The assistant was not symptomatic and has reportedly not been around the first daughter in several weeks and has been working remotely, according to CNN. Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner made coronavirus testing a precaution and both tested negative on Friday.

Earlier this week, one of President Donald Trump's Oval Office valets tested positive for the virus. And on Friday, it surfaced that Katie Miller, Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary and the wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller, also tested positive.

The 73-year-old Trump is at higher risk for getting a more serious form of the new coronavirus and his job involves lots of meetings and air travel. The valet who assists the president and first family with a variety of personal tasks, including serving food and beverage to the president.

The WHO has stated that people over 60 is the most fragile group to the coronavirus and the most serious cases seem to be for seniors 80 years and older.

COVID-19 has killed more than 75,000 people in the United States, with around 1.28 million confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Trump and Pence have both drawn sharp backlash for not following social protocols to wear masks when going out in public. The 61-year-old Pence made headlines last week for not wearing a mask while visiting patients at the hospital though the hospital had "informed" Pence the policy before his visit.

Trump, meanwhile, has never worn a mask in public and the Associated Press reported that the president doesn't want to wear a mask because he's afraid he'll look ridiculous and that it will harm his reelection chances.

The U.S. is currently the global epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, but Trump and several Republican lawmakers are already moving to loosen social distancing guidelines and reopen businesses.

More than a dozen states have nevertheless begun to relax coronavirus restrictions and reopen businesses, including West Virginia, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and Indiana as protests against stay-at-home orders and other lockdowns erupted across the country.

Restaurants and retail in Florida, where nearly 40,000 people are infected with the coronavirus, are allowed to reopen at 25 percent capacity everywhere except for those in the heavily populated Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. And its stay-at-home order expired last week. 

(With input from agencies)