Council leader Susan Aitken is self-isolating after meeting with Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti who has tested positive for Covid-19.
The leader of Glasgow City Council announced on social media that she would be isolating after meeting with the mayor on Tuesday.
She has pulled out of any planned engagements while awaiting the result of a PCR test.
Mr Garcetti’s office announced that he tested positive on Wednesday and had cancelled his scheduled events at the SEC. He is isolating in his hotel room.
Ms Aitken said: “I was with Mayor Garcetti, who has tested positive for Covid, on Tuesday.
“I’ve had two negative LFTs since then but I’ve also taken a PCR test, have withdrawn from my planned engagements and will self isolate at home til I get a negative result.”
Glasgow’s council leader has been meeting with COP26 delegates from around the world while the United Nations climate talks are taking place at the SEC. On Wednesday, she hosted a breakfast with US climate envoy John Kerry and architect Lord Norman Foster at the city chambers.
Mr Garcetti, who attended a summit with politicians including Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson at the Clydeside Distillery on Tuesday, is fully vaccinated and “feeling good”, his office announced.
The LA Times has reported Mr Garcetti is “tentatively” scheduled to return to Los Angeles on November 13, and that US President Joe Biden hasn’t interacted with the mayor.
Tens of thousands of delegates and climate activists have arrived in Glasgow for the conference, which runs until November 12, and fears were raised about a potential rise in Covid cases before the event got under way.
Earlier this week, Professor Devi Sridhar, from the University of Edinburgh, and an adviser to the Scottish Government, said queues at the COP26 venue were “really concerning”.
“This week I have been quite anxious seeing all that and knowing how fragile the situation has been,” she told BBC Good Morning Scotland.
“We’ve controlled the situation for quite a long time. Can we control it even after this big gathering, that’s the question.”
She added: “I know they thought a lot about making sure people were fully vaccinated, people were testing, it’s a really tricky one because obviously this is the worst timing ever during a pandemic, but at the same time I listened to those people who work in climate and they are saying now is the time, if not now we have an existential threat to humanity.”
