The United States President, Joe Biden has been announced to be out of isolation on Sunday, after testing negative for Covid for a second day in a row, which would also bethe first time he was able to leave the White House since July 20.
Biden, 79, had tested positive for Covid and returned to isolation on July 30, in a result doctors attributed to “rebound” positivity from his earlier bout of the illness.
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“I’m feeling good,” the smiling president told pool reporters at the White House as he boarded a helicopter which then flew him to his beach home in Delaware.
He was also optimistic about a sweeping climate and health care bill that was being debated in the Senate overnight Sunday, telling reporters: “I think it’s going to pass.”
The president “will safely return to public engagement and presidential travel,” his physician Kevin O’Connor said in a statement announcing the negative test.
According to Biden’s official schedule he is set to travel to the southern state of Kentucky, the scene of devastating floods, on Monday.
In another report, US President Joe Biden on Saturday informed Arab leaders that Washington would remain fully engaged in the Middle East and would not contemplate ceding influence to other world powers in the bloc.
‘We will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran,’ Biden asserted during a summit in Jeddah, on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia over the weekend.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the summit which is the final stop on Biden’s Middle East tour, brings together all the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council as well as Egypt, Jordan and Iraq.
Biden had been looking to use it to discuss volatile oil prices and outline his vision for Washington’s role in the region.
Africa Today News, New York had on Friday reported that Biden met Saudi King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler who US intelligence agencies assess ‘approved’ the 2018 operation that killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi.