With second negative COVID test, Biden exits isolation and gets back on the road

By Jeff Mason

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden examined unfavourable for COVID-19 for a second consecutive day on Sunday and ended his isolation on the White Home with a visit to his trip residence in Delaware and a reunion together with his spouse, first girl Jill Biden.

Biden has been holed up on the White Home for greater than two weeks with COVID, resulting in canceled journeys and occasions whilst his signs stayed delicate.

The president examined unfavourable on Saturday however waited till a second unfavourable take a look at on Sunday earlier than ending his isolation.

“He’ll safely return to public engagement and presidential journey,” Biden’s doctor, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, stated in a memo.

Biden flew to Delaware on Sunday morning.

“I am feeling good,” Biden, 79, instructed reporters exterior the White Home as he was departing for Rehoboth Seashore.

Biden first emerged from isolation on the White Home on July 27 after testing constructive for COVID-19 for the primary time on July 21. He examined constructive once more on July 30 in what O’Connor described as a rebound case seen in a small proportion of people that take the antiviral drug Paxlovid.

Biden plans to journey to Kentucky on Monday. His return to COVID-negative standing will enable him to take part in invoice signings on the White Home this week to have fun current legislative victories on semiconductor manufacturing, veterans’ well being, and doubtlessly a local weather and healthcare invoice that was making its method by means of the Senate on Sunday.

Biden suffered delicate signs, together with physique aches and cough, throughout his preliminary bout with COVID-19. The president is vaccinated and boosted towards the illness.

Throughout his sickness, Biden has made some extent of following or exceeding pointers set by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention for individuals with COVID instances. He labored from the White Home residence and loved the corporate of his canine whereas the primary girl stayed away to keep away from an infection.

Biden and his spouse had not seen one another in individual since he first examined constructive for COVID-19.

(Reporting by Jeff Mason; further reporting by Rami Ayyub Enhancing by Raissa Kasolowsky and Chizu Nomiyama)