Cover News Reporter Yan Lei
On the 21st local time, White House issued a statement saying that the US President Biden tested positive for the new coronavirus and the symptoms were mild.
has begun taking the new crown oral medication Paxlovid
will be isolated in the White House
1 In a statement, the White House said in a statement that Biden, 79, had "very mild symptoms" and had been fully vaccinated and received two boosters.
It is reported that Biden has begun to take the antiviral drug Paxlovid (Nematevir tablets/ritonavir tablets) developed by Pfizer . This drug can reduce the risk of hospitalization of patients with new crown .
The White House also said that according to the guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Biden will be isolated in the White House and will continue to fully perform all his duties during this period and will not return to the site to work until he tests negative.
statement stated: "For full transparency, the White House will update the president's status every day, and he will continue to perform all the president's duties in quarantine."
The White House introduced that Biden's last test for the new crown was on the 19th, when his test result was negative. All persons close to him will be notified, including members of Congress and members of the media.
Biden originally planned to go to Pennsylvania on the 21st to speak on the gun safety law between the two parties.
Visited Massachusetts
said he "suffered from cancer"
local time on the 20th local time, Biden visited Somerset, Massachusetts and announced a series of new administrative actions by the federal government to deal with extreme high temperatures and promote the offshore wind power industry. But like the information released by the White House, Biden did not declare the United States a "state of climate emergency" on the same day.
Biden pointed out that extreme weather events across the United States caused more than $145 billion in serious economic losses in 2021. The climate crisis has become a common emergency, which is related to the national and economic security of the United States.
Biden stressed: "Climate change has indeed posed a threat to the survival of our country and the world. So the message I want to convey today is that since Congress has not taken the action it deserves and we have not received many votes from the Republican Party, in such an emergency, I will exercise the president's executive power to deal with the climate crisis."
According to the situation released by the White House on the same day, this administrative action includes $2.3 billion invested by the Federal Emergency Administration to protect communities from extreme high temperatures and dangerous climates; the Department of Health will further expand the energy assistance program for low-income households; the Department of the Interior promotes the construction of the first offshore wind power generation project in Gulf of Mexico , providing clean energy to 3 million American households and expanding wind power employment.
In addition, Biden also said in his speech that day that he "has cancer." However, the White House urgently clarified afterwards that the cancer Biden mentioned was a skin cancer tumor that had been removed before taking office.
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