United States President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, Associated Press reported quoting a White House statement. The 79-year-old Biden is fully vaccinated after getting two doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine shortly before taking office, a first booster shot in September and an additional dose on March 30.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden has begun taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug designed to reduce the severity of the disease.

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She said Biden has “very mild symptoms” and “will isolate at the White House while continuing to carry out all of his duties fully.”

Jean-Pierre added that Biden will be isolated until he tests negative. Biden was last tested for Covid-19 on Tuesday, and he tested negative, according to her.

Previous waves of the virus infected Vice President Kamala Harris, Cabinet members, White House staffers, and lawmakers in Washington. Biden has increased his travel and resumed hosting large indoor events where not everyone is tested.

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Earlier today, Biden made the shocking claim that he has cancer, prompting the White House press office to go into overdrive to issue a clarification.

According to the press office, President Biden was referring to the skin cancer treatment he underwent before taking office last year.

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The President dropped the health announcement into a conversation about global warming and emissions from oil refineries near Claymont, Delaware, where he grew up.

With more than 6 million deaths worldwide as of March 2022, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the highly contagious infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has had a catastrophic impact on the world’s demographics and is emerging as the most significant global health crisis since the era of the influenza pandemic of 1918.