US President Donald Trump has tested positive for Covid-19

The American president and his wife, Melania Trump, announced this Friday, October 2, that they had tested positive for Covid-19 . If Donald Trump temporarily suspends his re-election campaign, he will remain in his presidential duties, the White House has announced .

In a nightly tweet, the tenant of the White House indeed announced: “That night, the First Lady and I tested positive for Covid-19 . We will immediately begin our quarantine and recovery protocol. We are going to go through this SET. ”

For the New York Times, after spending months “downplaying the severity of an epidemic that claimed the lives of 207,000 Americans, the president finds himself caught in the pandemic.” News “which plunges the country into uncertainty”.

The Washington Post recalls that the White House tenant was diagnosed just hours after the news “that one of his close advisers, Hope Hicks , 31, had tested positive for the coronavirus was made public”. She traveled with Trump this week aboard the Air Force One presidential plane, including attending the presidential debate on Tuesday, September 29 in Cleveland , Ohio, and a campaign rally in Minnesota. On September 30, she participated in a campaign rally in Minnesota.

The daily in the capital also recalls that Trump has been criticized on numerous occasions for “his giant electoral meetings, in which neither the wearing of a mask nor the measures of physical distancing are respected”.

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