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Reuters

US President Joe Biden has tested negative for Covid-19 after coming down with the coronavirus last week and is ending his isolation period at the White House, his doctor said on Wednesday.
Biden remains fever-free and is no longer taking paracetamol, Dr Kevin O’Connor said in a memo released by the White House. He tested negative on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.
The president has had mild symptoms including cough, sore throat and body aches since his initial positive test last Thursday.
“His symptoms have been steadily improving, and are almost completely resolved,” O’Connor said.


Biden, who is 79, will wear a mask for 10 full days when he is around others, the doctor said, mindful of potential exposure to Secret Service personnel and White House staff who are in proximity to him.
O’Connor said Biden would be tested regularly to watch for a potential “rebound” Covid-19 case of a sort experienced by some patients who have been treated with Paxlovid, the drug the president received.
The White House has been eager to show Biden at work during his convalescence. He held virtual events from the White House residence on multiple days and did video remarks on the first day he tested positive to reassure Americans that he was okay.
Joe Biden tests positive for Covid-19, has ‘very mild symptoms’
His Rose Garden remarks are expected to show he is fully back to work and engaged in the challenges facing his administration, including high inflation and the war in Ukraine.
Biden won the 2020 presidential election in part on a promise to take the pandemic more seriously than his opponent, former president Donald Trump.
He has overseen the roll-out of vaccines and continues to urge Americans to get inoculated as a new wave of the BA.5 subvariant sweeps across the United States.


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The White House doctor said the president, who is fever-free, will wear a mask for 10 full days when he is around others
Biden, 79, tested positive for the coronavirus last week



The White House doctor said the president, who is fever-free, will wear a mask for 10 full days when he is around others.


Joe Biden ends Covid-19 isolation after testing negative twice

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;} The White House doctor said the president, who is fever-free, will wear a mask for 10 full days when he is around others Biden, 79, tested positive for the coronavirus last week

The White House doctor said the president, who is fever-free, will wear a mask for 10 full days when he is around others

Biden, 79, tested positive for the coronavirus last week