{"id":42542,"date":"2024-07-18T09:30:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T04:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=42542"},"modified":"2024-07-18T08:07:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T03:07:30","slug":"potus-biden-tests-positive-for-covid-19-white-house-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/potus-biden-tests-positive-for-covid-19-white-house-says\/","title":{"rendered":"POTUS Biden tests positive for COVID-19, White House says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: US President <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/joe-biden-in-his-first-letter-to-shehbaz-led-govt-expresses-best-wishes-for-pakistan\/\">Joe Biden<\/a>, under fire from fellow Democrats to drop his <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/us-supreme-court-rules-trump-eligible-for-presidential-election\/\">re-election campaign<\/a>, tested positive for COVID-19 while on a trip to Las Vegas on Wednesday and is experiencing mild symptoms, the White House said.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced the positive test for the 81-year-old Democrat after the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/donald-trump-assassination-attempt-heres-all-you-need-to-know-about-rally-shooting\/\">president of UnidosUS<\/a>, a Latino civil rights organization, said Biden would not be able to speak at a scheduled event due to the diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is vaccinated and boosted and experiencing mild symptoms, Jean-Pierre said. Minutes after the announcement, the president&#8217;s motorcade was on the move from taping a radio interview in Las Vegas to the Las Vegas airport. The president was returning to Delaware to self-isolate, the White House said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden had just greeted a couple of dozen people at a Mexican restaurant prior to going behind closed doors for the interview. When Biden was late for the start of the UnidosUS event, the organiser announced he had tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Daily newsletter Receive essential international news every morning Subscribe Biden spent two nights in Vegas on the campaign trail. Biden is locked in a battle with some fellow Democrats who worry he is too old to seek re-election and want him to step aside in favour of another candidate.<\/p>\n<p>He suffered a blow earlier in the day when a prominent Democratic member of the US House of Representatives, Adam Schiff of California, said it was time for Biden to &#8220;pass the torch&#8221; to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will be returning to Delaware where he will self-isolate and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time,&#8221; said Jean-Pierre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden, under fire from fellow Democrats to drop his re-election campaign, tested positive for COVID-19 while on a trip to Las Vegas on Wednesday and is experiencing mild symptoms, the White House said. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced the positive test for the 81-year-old Democrat after the president of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":42543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[584,4141],"class_list":["post-42542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-covid-19","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42544,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42542\/revisions\/42544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}