atlanta mayor tests positive

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has tested positive for the coronavirus but said Tuesday that her only possible symptom is a headache. The diagnosis comes at an intense time for the city, which is reeling from the police killing of Rayshard Brooks and a spike in violence over the Fourth of July weekend. Bottoms announced her positive test on Twitter on Monday. "This is the same headache that I have during stressful times and allergy season," she told ABC's Good Morning America on Tuesday. The mayor said doctors told her she had a "low positive" test, meaning that she was either at the beginning or near the end of her infection.   One of her children has tested positive, and she told CNN that her husband tested positive as well. Bottoms added that neither she nor her husband has underlying heath conditions. On Tuesday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency, moving up to 1,000 National Guard troops to Atlanta following a burst of viole