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Maine House Speaker Fecteau tests positive for COVID-19

Ryan Fecteau, a Biddeford Democrat, says he is vaccinated and is experiencing minimal symptoms.

Posted October 29, 2021

Updated October 29, 2021

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AUGUSTA, ME - JUNE 30: Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau, D-Biddeford, chats on the phone with Republican House leader Rep. Kathleen Dillingham, R - Oxford, during quorum vote at start of session Wednesday June 30, 2021 at The Maine State House in Augusta. During sessions The Speaker sometimes talks to the leaders of the two major parties on the phone as they sit at their desks in opposite corners of the large chamber. It was the first day of the 130th Legislature that members could attend with out a face covering. (Staff photo by Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)

AUGUSTA, ME - JUNE 30: Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau, D-Biddeford, chats on the phone with Republican House leader Rep. Kathleen Dillingham, R - Oxford, during quorum vote at start of session Wednesday June 30, 2021 at The Maine State House in Augusta. During sessions The Speaker sometimes talks to the leaders of the two major parties on the phone as they sit at their desks in opposite corners of the large chamber. It was the first day of the 130th Legislature that members could attend with out a face covering. (Staff photo by Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer) Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

AUGUSTA — Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau announced Friday that he tested positive for COVID-19, and will be working remotely.

Fecteau said it was a so-called “breakthrough infection” because he’d already been vaccinated.

“Fortunately, my symptoms are minimal. I am grateful to be vaccinated and, as a result, not experiencing the worst that COVID has to offer,” the Biddeford Democrat said in a statement.

Fecteau and Senate President Troy Jackson are the highest ranking officials in state government to contract COVID-19.

Jackson, D-Allagash, and Senate Majority Leader Eloise Vitelli, D-Arrowsic, tested positive in September. U.S. Sen. Angus King of Maine also experienced a breakthrough infection and has since recovered.

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