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Donald Trump has tested negative for COVID-19 “on consecutive days” and is not contagious to others, his doctor said.
In a memo released by the White House, Dr. Sean Conley said that Trump had been tested using a BinaxNOW antigen card from Abbott Laboratories.
He said negative tests and other clinical and laboratory data “indicate a lack of detectable viral replication.”
The president of the United States announced that he had tested positive for coronavirus on October 2.
He was admitted to Walter Reed Military Hospital that night and released three days later.
Trump, who trails Democrat rival Joe Biden in polls ahead of next month’s presidential election, will hold an election rally in Florida on Monday.
The president is beginning a three-day tour of the states that he needs to win to defeat Biden in three weeks.
Trump will appear in Pennsylvania on Tuesday and Iowa on Wednesday.
He had previously claimed that he had a “protective glow” after being cleared by the White House medical staff of the coronavirus.
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Trump also declared himself immune to the virus, despite official guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning that recovering from COVID-19 does not make a patient immune.
A leading virus expert from the USA criticized the White House over the weekend for hosting a ceremony in September that turned out to be a “super broadcaster event.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease expert and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, also criticized Trump’s use of the word “cure” in discussing his recovery from the disease.
Several of the president’s aides and allies tested positive for COVID-19 after attending an event at the Rose Garden where the president revealed Amy Coney Barrett as his Supreme Court pick.
The threat of the coronavirus hangover the opening confirmation hearing for Ms. Barrett on Monday, after at least one senator present tested positive for the disease.
