WASHINGTON, April 3 — President Donald Trump announced yesterday that he has taken his second coronavirus test at the White House since the outbreak began and it was again found to be negative. “I just took it this morning,” he told a news conference. “It said the president tested negative...
US President Donald Trump leads the daily coronavirus response briefing at the White House in Washington April 2, 2020. — Reuters pic
“I just took it this morning,” he told a news conference. “It said the president tested negative for Covid-19.” “I took it out of curiosity to see how quickly it worked. It is a lot easier. I have done them both. The second one is much more pleasant,” Trump said.Trump, 73, had previously resisted getting tested, as well as arguing initially that coronavirus is no worse than the regular flu and did not require a massive shutdown of the economy.
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