Texas Gov. Greg Abbott attends a information briefing astatine the Weslaco Department of Public Safety DPS Headquarters connected Wednesday, June 30, 2021 successful Weslaco, Texas. Gov. Abbott says that helium has tested antagonistic for COVID-19, 4 days aft investigating positive. He said successful a video clip helium tweeted connected Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021 that he's been told his corruption was little and mild due to the fact that helium was vaccinated. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott attends a information briefing astatine the Weslaco Department of Public Safety DPS Headquarters connected Wednesday, June 30, 2021 successful Weslaco, Texas. Gov. Abbott says that helium has tested antagonistic for COVID-19, 4 days aft investigating positive. He said successful a video clip helium tweeted connected Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021 that he's been told his corruption was little and mild due to the fact that helium was vaccinated. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool) (The Washington Post)

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says helium has tested antagonistic for COVID-19, conscionable 4 days aft investigating positive.

“I'm told that my corruption was little and mild due to the fact that of the vaccination that I received,” Abbott said successful a video clip posted connected his Twitter relationship connected Saturday. “So I promote others who person not yet received the vaccination to see getting one.”

When the Republican politician announced Tuesday that helium had tested affirmative for the virus, his bureau said helium was successful bully wellness and experiencing nary symptoms. Abbott said Saturday that helium volition proceed to quarantine arsenic recommended by doctors.

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Abbott, who was vaccinated successful December, has refused calls to reinstate disguise mandates arsenic the highly contagious delta variant surges successful Texas.

He tested affirmative for the microorganism a time aft appearing indoors adjacent Dallas without a disguise portion speaking to a crowded country of GOP supporters, astir of whom were older and unmasked. Abbott, 63, has seldom been seen wearing a disguise successful nationalist recently.

He besides has rebuffed calls to reimpose pandemic restrictions, including mask mandates, arsenic cases successful Texas are again soaring, hospitals are stretched thin, and a increasing fig of schoolhouse districts defy his orders that prohibit face-covering requirements successful classrooms.

Hospitalizations successful Texas of radical with COVID-19 person reached levels not seen since January, with implicit 13,000 radical hospitalized arsenic of Saturday.

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Abbott said Saturday that his wife, Cecilia Abbott, continues to trial negative.

Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls, a Republican from the Houston area, said Saturday connected Twitter that he'd says that he’d tested affirmative for COVID-19 and had mean symptoms. Nehls said that helium is afloat vaccinated and hopes the symptoms walk soon.

“All Americans are escaped to marque their ain wellness decisions, but I powerfully promote getting vaccinated,” helium wrote connected Twitter Saturday. “It is scientifically proven to drastically trim the hazard of terrible unwellness & decease from COVID.”

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