US President Donald Trump, in an interview with journalist Bob Woodward, said that he is not worried about contracting COVID-19, CNN reported. The US President on Friday announced that he and his wife, first lady Melania Trump tested positive for coronavirus.

In a new recording of Donald Trump’s April 13 interview with Bob Woodward obtained by CNN news, the US President said he is not concerned about contracting COVID-19.

Woodward asked Trump, “You’re risking getting it, of course.” He further said, “The way you move around and have those briefings and deal with people. Are you worried about that?”

Replying to this, Trump said, “No, I’m not. I don’t know why I’m not. I’m not.”

When Woodward asked him why he was not concerned, he said, “I don’t know, I am just not.”

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Trump was airlifted on Friday night and was hospitalised to the Walter Reed military hospital outside Washington. Trump, in a video posted on his Twitter account, said he is “doing very well.”

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Trump, in a February 7 interview with Woodward, said he had intentionally downplayed the severity of the coronavirus in public comments in order to avoid triggering a panic.

“I wanted to always play it down, I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”

Woodward interviewed Trump for his book ‘Rage’, excerpts of which were published in a report by the Washington Post and CNN. Trump had admitted to Woodward that the virus was transmitted through the air.

“It moves rapidly, Bob. It moves rapidly and viciously. If you’re the wrong person and if it gets you, your life is pretty much over if you’re in the wrong group.”

Trump and Melania tested positive on Friday, a week after he attended a Rose Garden event at the White House, where judge Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to the Supreme Court.

Currently, seven persons have tested positive for the virus that also includes Trump’s campaign manager Bill Stepien, former White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s top aide Hope Hicks, Republican Utah Senator Mike Lee, Republican North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, and University of Notre Dame President the Rev. John Jenkins had tested positive for the virus.