Kemp Tests Negative For COVID-19 After Exposure To Someone Who Tested Positive

A spokesman said both Gov. Brian Kemp and first lady Marty Kemp, shown at Marietta’s Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in July, got coronavirus tests.

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Updated at 6:30 p.m. Friday

Gov. Brian Kemp tested negative for COVID-19 after having had “direct exposure” to someone who tested positive, but he is quarantining as a precaution, according to a statement posted to his official Twitter account Friday.

The statement said first lady Marty Kemp also tested negative and is “not known to have been exposed to a confirmed case.” It was unclear whether she was quarantining with her husband. An earlier statement from the governor’s spokesman Cody Hall said she was.