Eleven U.S. Secret Service agents test positive for COVID-19: report

Eleven U.S. Secret Service members have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Thursday evening, Yahoo News reported citing documents it obtained from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The Secret Service is responsible for the protection of the U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders in the country. 

According to the DHS document, there are also 23 members of the Secret Service who have recovered from COVID-19 and an additional 60 employees who are self-quarantining now along with the 11 active cases.

Back in March, the agency revealed an employee had contracted the virus. 

The report does not mention if any of the referenced employees have come into contact with the U.S. president or other leaders. 

The report also fans the flame of COVID-19's potential spread to the inner circle of senior U.S. officials following a latest report of U.S. Vice President Pence's spokeswoman having caught the virus.

"To protect the privacy of our employee's health information and for operational security, the Secret Service is not releasing how many of its employees have tested positive for COVID-19, nor how many of its employees were, or currently are, quarantined," Justine Whelan, a Secret Service spokeswoman, told Yahoo News when asked about the documents.