Daily US Times: White House physician Sean Conley has said that US President Donald Trump is no longer a Covid transmission risk to others.
Dr Conley’s memo is the first update on Mr Trump’s health since Thursday.
The President delivered a speech in front of cheering supporters at the White House earlier on Saturday. This is his first public appearance since being hospitalised with the virus.
There had been concerns that the President might still be contagious following his three-day hospital stay.
The White House physician Dr Conley said the latest tests on the President revealed there was “no longer evidence of actively replicating virus”, but it was not clear whether this meant that he had tested negative for Covid-19.
Saturday’s event was officially a “peaceful protest”, but looked much like a Trump campaign rally, critics said.
Mr Trump says he is no longer taking medicines against Covid-19, told the crowd he was “feeling great”.
His rival in the upcoming election, Joe Biden, has been campaigning in Pennsylvania. Mr Biden said his “heart goes out” to all those families who have lost someone they love to coronavirus.
Polling suggests Mr Biden, who was the Vice President of the Obama administration, has a single-digit lead over Mr Trump and an ABC News/Ipsos poll found that just 35% of Americans approved of how Mr Trump has handled the coronavirus crisis.
More than 210,000 people in the US are known to have died of Covid-19.
Questions over safety were raised after a gathering to unveil Mr Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court resulted in at least 11 people subsequently testing positive for Covid-19 – including the President himself. Dr Anthony Fauci, the Top US infectious disease expert, described it as “a super-spreader event”.
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