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Top Pentagon official tests positive for coronavirus

by Lolita C. Baldor
| November 19, 2020 8:03 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon official installed in a top policy job last week has tested positive for COVID-19, the Pentagon said Thursday, just days after he met with the Lithuanian defense minister, who had contracted the virus.

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