Mexico Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard will continue with plans to visit Central America and the Caribbean, he said on Wednesday, following a negative Covid-19 test after a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinken has tested positive for Covid-19 and was showing mild symptoms, the State Department said, after the two had met in Washington the previous day to discuss investment in Central America. “We’re moving forward,” Ebrard said on Twitter, referring to plans on Thursday to visit the Mexican state of Puebla for Cinco de Mayo celebrations and begin a tour of Central America and the Caribbean with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Blinken was scheduled to deliver a high-profile speech on Thursday outlining the Biden administration’s China policy but State Department spokesman Ned Price said that will be postponed. Blinken has not seen President Joe Biden in person for several days and Biden is not considered a close contact, the State Department and White House said. Blinken earlier Wednesday also met with Swedish Prime Minister Ann Linde at the State Department. On Tuesday, Blinken met with Ebrard and Japanese National Security Adviser Akiba Takeo. Blinken was among guests who packed into a Washington hotel on Saturday evening for the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. ‘Goal is to avoid catastrophe’: US to outline strategy for dealing with China Trevor Noah, the comedian who introduced Biden, joked about the gala dinner being a “superspreader” event. ABC newsman Jonathan Karl and Steve Herman, a chief national correspondent for Voice of America, tested positive for the virus on Monday. Biden himself tested negative on Tuesday. Karl, who shook Biden’s hand while receiving an award, was also sitting at the same table as reality TV star Kim Kardashian and her boyfriend, Pete Davidson of Saturday Night Live acclaim, as first reported by Politico. Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci withdrew from the event after citing his own “personal risk”. Fauci is 81, just two years older than Biden, raising some critics to question whether the commander-in-chief should have attended. US Vice-President Kamala Harris tests positive for Covid-19 The gala came a month after a similar event, the Gridiron Club gala, which led to a string of Washington power players testing positive. The top US diplomat’s contraction of Covid-19 was the latest in a series of cases confirmed among White House officials, Cabinet members and lawmakers. Vice-President Kamala Harris was also recently infected. Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Tribune News Service