Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris will halt campaign travel until Monday after two members of her staff tested positive for coronavirus. The California senator's communications director, Liz Allen, and a flight crew member received the results on Wednesday, a Biden official said. Neither aide had close contact with the candidates in the 48 hours prior to their positive tests, she added. Ms Harris had been scheduled to fly to North Carolina on Thursday. Biden Campaign Manager Jen O'Malley Dillon said the senator had no close contact with either infected staff member in the two days before the positive test, and was therefore not required to quarantine. "Regardless, out of an abundance of caution and in line with our campaign's commitment to the highest levels of precaution, we are cancelling Senator Harris's travel through Sunday," she said. One week ago on 8 October, Ms Harris and Mr Biden campaigned together in Arizona, where they held multiple appearances and interviews. The campaign says Ms Harris flew with both staff members on that trip, but they all wore masks throughout the flight and practiced social distancing. Ms Harris has been tested twice since 8 October, most recently testing negative on 14 October. The Biden campaign has made emphasising health safety a visible part of its political strategy, in an effort to mark a point of contrast with President Trump. A number of Republicans and White House associates - and Mr Trump himself - have tested positive for coronavirus in recent weeks. Mr Biden is scheduled to hold a town hall event on ABC News on Thursday night. President Trump is due to host a competing town hall on NBC at the same time. Ms Harris had been due to visit North Carolina on the state's first day of early in person voting. She was scheduled to visit the cities of Charlotte and Asheville for what would have been her second trip to the crucial swing state in the past three weeks. Mr Trump, who is due to hold an afternoon airport rally in the North Carolina city of Greenville, is holding his sixth visit to the state since the Republican convention in late August. The president's visit is expected to draw thousands of people, local police say. Parking restrictions mean that attendees will need to take a Trump campaign shuttle bus from a nearby fairgrounds. Local health officials have appealed to Trump supporters to wear masks and practice social distancing and hand washing at the rally. Pictures of recent Trump rallies have shown many of his supporters eschewing masks.