The White House has promised to report “every day” on the health status of Biden, the oldest sitting president in the United States and who according to a November medical examination is healthy and “fit” to perform his duties.
Biden’s last negative Covid test dates back to Tuesday, upon his return from a tour of Israel and Saudi Arabia last week, Karine Jean-Pierre said.
The president was scheduled to travel to Pennsylvania on Thursday and to Florida on Monday.
The United States is currently registering some 130,000 new cases of covid-19 per day, an underestimate according to experts, and the number of hospitalizations is increasing. The highly contagious BA.5 subvariant of omicron is dominant in the country, accounting for about 80% of cases.
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