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		</div><p>Kevin Stitt has announced he is the first governor in the United States to test positive for coronavirus and is isolating at home.</p>
<p>Mr Stitt, 48, said he mostly feels fine, although he started feeling “a little achy” on Tuesday and sought a test.</p>
<p>He said his wife and children were also tested Tuesday and none of them tested positive.</p>
<p>Mr Stitt has backed one of the country’s most aggressive reopening plans, resisted any statewide mandate on masks and rarely wears one himself.</p>
<p>“We respect people’s rights … to not wear a mask,” Mr Stitt said during Wednesday’s news conference, which was held virtually.</p>
<p>“You just open up a big can of worms. A lot of businesses are requiring it and that’s fine.</p>
<p>“I’m just hesitant to mandate something that I think is problematic to enforce.”</p>
<p>Mr Stitt attended US President Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa last month, which health experts have said likely contributed to a surge in coronavirus cases there.</p>
<p>The governor said he is confident he did not contract the virus at the rally.</p>
<p>“As far as where he became infected, it’s really unknown,” Oklahoma health commissioner Lance Frye said.</p>
<p>“It wasn’t so far back as the rally,” he said, which took place nearly a month ago.</p>
<p>Mr Stitt’s announcement came as Oklahoma reported a second consecutive day of record-high numbers of confirmed virus cases, with 1,075 new cases.</p>
<p>It brings the statewide total to more than 22,000. The previous daily high was 993 confirmed cases on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Health officials also confirmed four additional Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday, bringing the statewide death toll to 432.</p>
<p>Coronavirus-related hospital admissions also are surging in Oklahoma, increasing from 458 last week to 561 on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Mr Frye said there is still plenty of hospital capacity.</p>
<p>Mr Stitt came under fire early in the pandemic after he tweeted a photo of himself and his children eating at a crowded restaurant.</p>
<p>One of Mr Stitt’s Cabinet members, David Ostrowe, tested positive for the coronavirus in March.</p>
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