Mike Pompeo enters self-quarantine

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a speech titled "Communist China and the Free World's Future" at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, Yorba Linda, California, U.S., July 23, 2020. /Getty

The United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has gone into self-quarantine after coming into contact with someone infected with COVID-19, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.

"The secretary of state has been tested and is negative," a spokesman for U.S. diplomacy said in a statement to the media.