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US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump was airlifted to a military hospital less than 24 hours after his Covid-19 diagnosis.
Trump was airlifted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center yesterday and is expected to remain there for “a few days.”
A White House spokeswoman stressed that the hospital stay was “as a precaution” and that the 74-year-old would work from the hospital’s presidential suite, which is equipped to allow him to continue his official duties.
Trump left the White House wearing a mask before boarding Marine One last night, and in a video on Twitter he said: “I think I’m doing great, but we’re going to make sure things work out.”
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020
Late yesterday, the president’s physician, Sean Conley, said the president was “very well.”
He added: “He does not need supplemental oxygen, but in consultation with specialists we have chosen to initiate therapy with Remdesivir.”
Trump tweeted: “I’m doing fine I think! Thank you all. Love!!!”
In the early hours of Irish time this morning, Trump’s top aide Kellyanne Conway confirmed that she had tested positive for Covid-19.
She said: “My symptoms are mild (mild cough) and I feel fine. I started a quarantine process in consultation with the doctors. As always, my heart goes out to all those affected by this global pandemic. “
Tonight I tested positive for COVID-19. My symptoms are mild (mild cough) and I feel fine. I started a quarantine process in consultation with the doctors.
As always, my heart goes out to all those affected by this global pandemic. ❤️
– Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) October 3, 2020
The United States has been stunned by the events unfolding around Trump’s health problems, with only four weeks left until the presidential election.
The president announced his diagnosis in a tweet early Friday, following a positive test from one of his closest aides, Hope Hicks.
First lady Melania Trump also tested positive and has a “mild cough and headache,” according to the doctor, but the rest of the first family, including her son Barron, who lives in the White House, tested negative.
The president’s re-election campaign said that all events with Trump and members of his family would be postponed or connected online, but that Vice President Mike Pence would resume the campaign as he had tested negative.
Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis is the latest among world leaders, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and the EU’s top Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier also fell ill.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was admitted to intensive care after contracting coronavirus during the first wave of infections in the UK in the spring, expressed his best wishes to Donald and Melania Trump, saying he was “sure they will both have a very strong recovery. ” .
Meanwhile, in the UK, Johnson defended the current series of local confinements and called for patience in the fight against the disease.
Liverpool, Warrington, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough became the last regions to enter local closures on Saturday, and it is now illegal for households to mingle inside those areas.
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More than a third of the UK population lives under tighter restrictions, and Johnson has faced a riot on his back benches in recent days over the way ministers have introduced such local closures without giving MPs a voice.
In an interview with BBC North East and Cumbria on the eve of the “virtual” conservative conference, Johnson appeared to blame the public for the current surge in cases.
He said the summer had brought with it a “kind of wear and tear on discipline and people’s attention” to the rules of social distancing.
His comments come as even more college students tested positive, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne-based University of Northumbria said it was aware of 770 cases as of Friday, 78 of which are symptomatic.
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