Sacramento city councilwoman tests positive for COVID-19, is symptomatic and isolating
.JPG "Sacramento City Councilwoman Angelique Ashby, right, seen with Mayor Darrell Steinberg, center, touring a Sprung shelter in Meadowview on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. Ashby tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, April 21, 2022, she said.")
Sacramento City Councilwoman Angelique Ashby tested positive for COVID-19 last week, she said in recent social media posts.
Ashby, the councilwoman for Natomas who is also the city’s vice mayor, tweeted Saturday that she missed the grand opening of the North Natomas Community Center and Aquatics Complex that day because she was isolating “at home with Covid.”
Ashby in a message to The Sacramento Bee said she tested positive Thursday afternoon and has been isolating at home since.
“Grateful to be married to a nurse,” she told The Bee. Her husband is an emergency room nurse for Sutter Health, she said.
The councilwoman said her main symptom has been fatigue, along with a mild cough and achy joints. She said she does not have a fever and is “feeling better each day.”
“My proof of life pic,” she tweeted Monday morning, along with a smiling selfie.
Ashby, who in March formally announced she is running for a state Senate seat in this year’s midterm election, is fully vaccinated.
The councilwoman is the latest Sacramento-area political figure to test positive during the more than two-year coronavirus pandemic.
Mayor Darrell Steinberg tested positive for the virus in September 2021. Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones, running for the U.S. House of Representatives this year, tested positive in December 2020.
