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Biden out of isolation after testing negative for Covid-19
The US President had tested positive for Covid and returned to isolation on 30 July.
US PRESIDENT JOE Biden is out of isolation today, after testing negative for Covid-19 for a second day in a row, the first time he was able to leave the White House since 20 July.
Biden (79) had tested positive for Covid and returned to isolation on 30 July, in a result doctors attributed to “rebound” positivity from his earlier bout of the illness.
“I’m feeling good,” the smiling president told pool reporters at the White House as he boarded a helicopter which then flew him to his beach home in Delaware.
He was also optimistic about a sweeping climate and health care bill that is being debated in the Senate overnight, telling reporters: “I think it’s going to pass.”
The president “will safely return to public engagement and presidential travel”, his physician Kevin O’Connor said in a statement announcing the negative test.
According to Biden’s official schedule he is set to travel to the southern state of Kentucky, the scene of devastating floods, on Monday.
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