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President Donald Trump has “mild symptoms” of COVID-19 and works in isolation, but is forced to suspend his election campaign on the ground, according to White House officials quoted by the media.
Two people briefed on his health condition told The Times that these are symptoms similar to those of a cold.
“The president is not incapable (of exercising his powers). He is now working from his residence,” said a White House official.
Epidemiological investigations are currently underway to establish contacts with Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump, who also tested positive for COVID-19.
Her 14-year-old son Barron tested negative, as did Trump’s daughter from his first marriage, Ivanka Trump, along with her husband Jared Kushner.
As a precaution, Vice President Mike Pence’s staff, the latter and his wife, Karen, tested negative for COVID-19, were separated from Donald Trump’s.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, also tested negative for COVID-19. She had met with the president on Saturday, and this week she visited with several congressmen in the Senate, accompanied by Vice President Pence.
While working in isolation, the Republican president is forced to cancel all his trips and electoral activities, a month before the presidential elections in which he will face Democrat Joe Biden, who is ahead of him at the polls.
Donald Trump, who has always downplayed the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic that has killed more than 200,000 people in the United States and has been careless with precautions, rarely seen wearing a mask, announced on Twitter on Friday. morning he and Melania tested positive for COVID-19.
Even if you now have only mild symptoms, the course of the disease can be unpredictable, especially since Donald Trump falls into the risk categories for this disease, especially considering his age of 74.
