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US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania tested positive for coronavirus, he said on his Twitter account.
It was first reported that his close associate, Hope Hicks, who often flies on the presidential plane, fell ill. She may have been contagious Tuesday when she was with Trump in his Cleveland, Ohio debate with Joe Biden.
On Monday, Trump appeared at an event near Vice President Mike Pence without wearing a mask. It is unclear if Pence will isolate himself and how this will affect the country’s government.
On Tuesday, during the first debate with his opponent Joe Biden, the two were also close and unprotected. This means that the former vice president’s team is concerned and will have to test everyone, including the Biden family.
The news comes just a month before the US presidential election, and at least it means that due to Trump’s forced self-isolation, his election campaign will have to continue for at least two weeks without his participation in rallies and meetings across the country. His second debate with Joe Biden is also being seriously questioned.
Stock exchanges around the world reacted immediately by dropping indices to the announcement that Hicks was infected and that the presidential couple were pre-emptively isolated. Investors told Reuters they were not so concerned about the effect on the president’s campaign because they did not rule out infecting him to elicit a “vote of sympathy.” The problem is how the new situation will affect the adoption of a new package of aid and tax incentives to deal with the economic crisis.
Now a lot depends on whether Trump will remove the infection in a few days or go to the hospital. In the latter case, the markets are likely to conclude that he will lose the presidency.
But it is not clear how they will react to this scenario, because for investors it means higher taxes and more regulation under President Joe Biden, but on the other hand the dominance of the Democrats in parliament guarantees more federal incentives, and this will have a balancing effect. .
In the United States, on September 30, 43,252 new cases of infection were reported, which represents 64% of the peak recorded on July 22. There are 7,260,393 infected and 207,060 deaths in the country since the start of the pandemic.
Until evidence emerges from testing from people in close contact with the president, uncertainty about the scale of the problem will increase tensions in Washington. Will a hiatus in Trump’s campaign be announced and Biden will do the same so as not to be accused of taking advantage of the fact that his opponent cannot fight equally? Will the process of electing a new Supreme Court member stop: Conservative Justice nominee Amy Connie Barrett, who was in the White House Tuesday and met with Pence and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ?
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