NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio has tested negative for COVID-19, two days after he "woke up feeling under the weather," his press secretary said Wednesday.
“The results are in and the mayor is negative for COVID-19,” de Blasio's press secretary, Freddi Goldstein, tweeted Wednesday morning.
The mayor’s office on Tuesday tweeted out a photo of him getting a COVID-19 test — a day after he canceled all of his public events and took a sick day.
“The Mayor woke up feeling under the weather and is going to take the day to recuperate and work from home,” Goldstein wrote on Twitter on Monday. “We expect to be back to our regular programming tomorrow.”
During his daily briefing on Wednesday morning, de Blasio said the test he took was quick and relatively painless.
"I took the test — they used the smaller kind of Q-tip thing, where they swirl it around your nose, not the long, painful thing that we’ve seen some graphic demonstration of," he said.
"More and more, what I want our testing program to use is that smaller, easier Q-tip, so people realize it’s not uncomfortable, it’s not difficult, it’s very fast. And I did that, they took the results, and then I got the notification this morning," he said.
"I’m not actually familiar with the details of how it all hapepns, but I think, in light of the concern, obviously, about everyone I’ve come in contact with, and the need to get an answer speedy, in this particular case, they got me results in a quick manner," he added.