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WASHINGTON (AFP, NYTIMES) – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said via Twitter on Friday (October 2) that he tested negative for coronavirus, three days after his debate with Donald Trump, who contracted the disease.
“I am pleased to report that Jill and I have tested negative for Covid,” Biden said. “I hope this serves as a reminder: wear a mask, maintain social distance, and wash your hands.”
Minutes earlier, his doctor Kevin O’Connor issued a statement through the former vice president’s campaign about the negative result.
“Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden underwent PCR testing for Covid-19 today and Covid-19 was not detected,” O’Connor said.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris also tested negative for the coronavirus on Friday, according to an aide.
Earlier on Friday (October 2), Trump announced that he and his wife Melania had Covid-19. Later, the White House said he was suffering from mild symptoms of the virus.
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife tested negative, a Pence spokesman said. The White House official said Pence would work from his own residence several miles from the White House and that his staff would be kept separate from Trump’s staff “as a precaution.”
Pence, 61, a former Conservative US lawmaker and Indiana governor, would take office if Trump were incapacitated.
Biden and Trump met on the stage of the debate in Ohio on Tuesday. All the assistants had tested negative before the debate.
The Trump family arrived with masks, but then took them off, moderator Chris Wallace said.
It can take several days for a person infected with Covid-19 to test positive.
Biden wrote on Twitter that he and his wife “send our thoughts to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for a speedy recovery.”
“We will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and his family,” he added.
Senator Harris, Biden’s running mate, also tweeted that she had the president “and the entire Trump family in our thoughts.”
Harris was scheduled to campaign in Nevada on Friday.
News of Trump’s test comes as Biden, after months of limited travel amid the pandemic, had begun to return to the campaign.
He was scheduled to travel to Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Friday, and a train trip through eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania on Wednesday was his most vigorous campaign day in months.
On Thursday, his campaign said his team would resume in-person counting in the battlefield states.
In a note sent to staff Friday morning, Biden’s campaign manager Jennifer O’Malley Dillon asked the team to “refrain from posting about the situation on social media unless instructed to do so by your manager. otherwise, “and promised that” the health and safety of the entire team has been, and will continue to be, our number one priority. ”
In late August, the Biden campaign said that Biden and Harris would be screened regularly, and that staff members who interacted with them would also be screened regularly.
The campaign said it would publicly announce whether Biden or Harris ever have a confirmed case of the coronavirus.
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