President Biden tests positive for COVID-19: White House
Posted July 21, 2022 9:37 am.
Last Updated July 21, 2022 9:40 am.
U.S. President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, according to the White House.
A statement from the White House Press Secretary says the 79-year-old Biden tested positive on Thursday morning and is experiencing “very mild symptoms.”
“He will continue to work in isolation until he tests negative,” reads the statement. “Once he tests negative, he will return to in-person work.”
The president is fully vaccinated and has received two booster doses.The White House says he has already begun taking Paxlovid as a treatment for the virus.
The diagnosis comes just before he was supposed to hold a press conference in Pennsylvania.
More to come.
