NRI Latest News: US President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid on Wednesday, shortly after conceding that he would consider dropping his troubled reelection bid if he was diagnosed with a serious medical condition.
The 81-year-old Democrat gave the media the thumbs up from his limousine and said “I feel good” as he cut short a campaign trip to Las Vegas following the diagnosis.
The White House said he was suffering from a runny nose, cough, and “general malaise,” was taking Covid medication, and was flying straight to isolation at his beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware.
The diagnosis, which came hours after Biden released comments in an interview conducted Tuesday, said he could step aside as a presidential candidate “if I had some medical condition that emerged.”