The White House said on Friday that President Donald Trump would spend the few coming days in a military hospital outside Washington to receive treatment for the coronavirus, but that he will continue to perform his duties, according to the USA Today.
"On the recommendation of his doctor and other medical experts, the president will operate from the presidential offices in Walter Reed (Maryland) over these next few days," White House spokeswoman Kylie McCannani said.
"The president is still in good spirits, has mild symptoms, and is working all day," she said.
When asked whether Trump will address the nation about his health in the coming days, she replied, "It is safe to say that you will see and hear from the president as he moves forward with his work schedule."
Aides to the president insisted he was fine, walking around and talking to associates, and that his hospitalization was a precaution.
On Friday, the White House doctor announced that Trump is receiving an experimental treatment against Covid-19, which is a synthetic antibody.
He added that he was injected with a dose of an experimental treatment that was developed by the Regeneron laboratory and had given encouraging initial results in clinical trials on a small number of patients.
The doctor indicated that experts are examining the president and will make recommendations on "next steps," adding that First Lady Melania Trump, who also has Covid-19, suffers "a mild cough and headache."
Trump, 74, announced in a tweet on Twitter that he and his wife, 50, had contracted the virus and would begin quarantine.
News agencies quoted a White House spokeswoman, McKinani, as saying that President Donald Trump "will participate in the November elections and he is well and in good spirits."
She added that the president "wants to talk to the American people, and they will somehow listen to him soon."
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows confirmed that President Donald Trump suffers from mild symptoms of the emerging coronavirus and continues to perform his duties from isolation despite the disease.
He informed reporters yesterday, Friday that he is optimistic about the condition of Trump and his wife Melania, despite their diagnosis of the pandemic, saying that they are still in good spirits and the doctor is following their health.
"The American people can be sure that they have a president who is still and will continue to perform his duties, and I am optimistic that he will recover soon," the White House chief of staff reassured the country’s citizens.
Meadows indicated that all the key employees of the White House were tested for Corona again, in light of the infection of the President and the First Lady, and it was found that they had not been infected.
The New York Times" quoted an informed source as saying that Trump participated on Thursday, in a fundraising party at his golf club in New Jersey, where he interacted with about a thousand people, adding that the president appeared idle during the event.
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