US Congress slow to issue directives as Covid spreads at a high rate among lawmakers

By the end of November, more than 25 members of Congress and at least 150 workers had been infected amid lack of precautions

For months Capitol Hill has struggled with how to contain the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.

But even as the rest of the world slowly got a better handle on the spread of the virus, infections among US lawmakers in Washington DC have continued to rise and there hasn't been a singular medical authority enforcing a blanket set of rules for all members of Congress and their staffers.