Biden tests negative for COVID-19, ends ‘strict isolation’

Biden, 79, tested positive for COVID-19 last week.

By: AP
Washington | July 27, 2022 08:07 PM IST

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President Joe Biden is ending his COVID-19 isolation after testing negative for the virus on Tuesday night and again on Wednesday.

That’s according to a letter the White House released Wednesday from Biden’s physician. Dr. Kevin O’Connor writes that Biden has completed his course of treatment with the drug Paxlovid and remains free of fever. O’Connor says that given those factors and the pair of negative tests, Biden will discontinue his “strict isolation” measures.