The View - latest: Kamala uses covid scare to appeal for vaccines after two hosts test positive on air

Two hosts of The View tested positive for Covid-19 in the middle of the show with vice president Kamala Harris waiting backstage for a live interview.

Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were asked to leave the show’s set live on-air as co-host Joy Behar was introducing Ms Harris.

“There seems to be something happening here that I’m not 100 per cent aware of,” Behar said after the show returned from a commercial break.

“Can someone please apprise me of the situation?”

Hostin and Navarro were asked to leave by an off-camera producer, and when Behar asked if she should continue to introduce the vice president, one voice shouted “yes” and another “no.”

“OK, since this is going to be a major news story any minute now, what happened is, Sunny and Ana both apparently tested positive for Covid,” Behar added.

“No matter how hard we try, these things happen, they probably have a breakthrough case. They’re both vaccinated up the wazoo!”

Key Points

• ‘The View’ hosts test positive for Covid-19 ahead of interview with Kamala Harris

• Here is moment hosts of ‘The View' tested positive for Covid-19 on air

• GOP attack Kamala harris over Covid-19 chaos on ‘The View'

• Kamala Harris does ‘The View' interview from separate room as Joy Behar

Kamala Harris promises $1.2bn to get children broadband access

18:35 , Graeme Massie

“We are announcing today $1.2 billion going to over three million school children in America to get them access and affordability for broadband,” she said during her interview on The View.

“We want to make sure that all kids have the opportunity to succeed.”

Kamala Harris urges Americans to get vaccinated after chaos on 'The View’

18:20 , Graeme Massie

“I’ve been watching, like many of you, with heartache, with the videos of people who are in an ICU bed, who did not get vaccinated, pleading with their family members, ‘please get vaccinated,’” Ms Harris said.

And she added: “You know, when I think of it in the context of any one of us who have had these awful experiences of holding the hands of a loved one who is in an ICU bed, or is near death - like, don’t put your families through that. The vaccine is free. It is safe, and it will save your life. So folks just need to get vaccinated.”

Host of ‘The View' assured Kamala Harris she was ‘safe’

18:10 , Graeme Massie

“Before we go into the pandemic question that I have for you, I just want to say, I hope that you’re in a safe spot right now,” Joy Behar told the vice president as the now-remote interview finally began..

“We did everything we could to make sure you’re safe because we value you so much.”

After an interview, in which Ms Harris condemned Haitian migrants being rounded up by border patrol agents on horseback, Behar urged the vice president to come back on the show under normal circumstances.

“Please come back, we want you back,” Behar told Ms Harris.

“And I promise you, it’ll be different.”

Kamala Harris does The View interview from separate room as Joy Behar

17:55 , Graeme Massie

The vice president said it was a positive fact that the fact the two hosts, Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro, had been vaccinated.

“Sunny and Ana are strong women and I know they’re fine, but it really also does speak to the fact that they’re vaccinated and vaccines really make all the difference because otherwise we would be concerned about hospitalisation and worse,” she said.

GOP attack Kamala harris over Covid-19 chaos on The View

17:42 , Graeme Massie

The Republican National Committee’s RNC Research Twitter account took shots at the vice president after two of the show’s hosts tested positive for Covid-19 live on air before her interview.

“What a metaphor. Kamala Harris can’t even do an interview on “the View” without everything descending into complete chaos,” they tweeted.

Here is moment hosts of The View tested positive for Covid-19 on air

17:30 , Graeme Massie

Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were asked to leave the show’s set live on-air as co-host Joy Behar was introducing vice president Kamala Harris.

‘The View’ hosts test positive for Covid-19 ahead of interview with Kamala Harris

17:24 , Graeme Massie

Two hosts of The View on ABC tested positive for Covid-19 ahead of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

It was announced on the show on Friday that host Sunny Hostin and guest host Ana Navarro both had breakthrough cases of Covid-19. Both were at the table for the “Hot Topics” segment at the start of the programme. A White House official said Ms Harris didn’t interact with either of the hosts.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

Hosts of ‘The View’ test positive for Covid-19 ahead of interview with Kamala Harris