US President Joe Biden’s condition has improved since first testing positive for Covid-19, the White House has announced.
The 79-year-old is experiencing mild symptoms, including a runny nose and fatigue, his doctor says he is responding well to medication.
Mr Biden has kept working while in isolation, and yesterday tweeted that he was “doing great”, and he is expected to resume normal duties once he tests negative.
An update released on Friday by the president’s physician, Dr Kevin O’Connor, noted that a slight fever on Thursday evening responded well to Tylenol.
Mr Biden still has an occasional cough, and his pulse, blood pressure and oxygen saturation levels remain “entirely normal”, Dr O’Connor added.
In a Zoom meeting with his economic and energy advisers on Friday, Mr Biden sounded hoarse but said he was “feeling much better than I sound”.
The president is still also being treated with Paxlovid, an anti-viral medicine that helps stop the Covid virus from multiplying in the body, This, in turn, allows the immune system to better combat the infection.
In a news briefing at the White House, spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said she spoke to the president and that “he wants to remind Americans to get vaccinated”.
Ms Jean-Pierre added that the president had been “very active” and felt well enough to work an eight-hour day, which also included virtually receiving the president’s daily briefing produced by US intelligence agencies.
Dr Ashish Jha, the White House’s Covid response coordinator, said that Mr Biden had “slept well last night”.
“He ate his breakfast and lunch, fully,” he added. “He actually showed me his plate.”
Dr O’Connor added that he believes the president – who is fully vaccinated and boosted – “will respond favourably [to the medication], as most maximally protected patients do.”
Bbc/Adebukola Aluko
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