Biden Leaves Isolation After Testing Negative For COVID-19
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US President, Joe Biden on Sunday, left isolation after testing negative for Covid for a second day in a row, becoming the first time he was able to leave the White House since he was forced to go underground on July 20.

Africa Today News, New York recalls that the 79-year-old Biden, had tested positive for Covid and returned to isolation on July 30, as a result, doctors attributed to ‘rebound’ positivity from his earlier bout of the illness.

‘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 on Sunday.

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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 (today).

In a related development, China had last Friday announced that it would be ending all the cooperation it has with the United States on a litany of key issues which would also be including climate change, anti-drug efforts and military talks, as well as relations between the two superpowers nosedive over the island of Taiwan.

Beijing had reacted furiously to a visit by United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the island, which it claims as its territory and has vowed to retake, by force if necessary.

It has since Thursday encircled the self-ruled, democratic island with a series of huge military drills that have been roundly condemned by the United States and other Western allies. And Friday saw its foreign ministry hit back further against the United States, suspending talks and cooperation on multiple agreements between the two — including on fighting climate change.

Africa Today News, New York

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