Former US President Barack Obama has Covid-19

“I had a sore throat for a few days but I feel fine. Michelle (Obama’s wife) and I are very grateful to have been vaccinated against Covid-19 and a booster dose,” – the former US president wrote on social networks.

While Mr Obama has tested positive for Covid-19, Michelle is fortunate not to have contracted the disease.

In addition to announcing himself positive for Covid-19, Obama also encouraged Americans to get vaccinated against Covid-19 despite the fact that the country’s Covid-19 case rate fell to an average of around 35,000 cases./day last week compared to 810,000 cases/day in the previous week. mid January.

President Obama speaks at a memorial service for former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Las Vegas January 8, 2022. Photo: AP

Previously Obama, former President Donald Trump on October 2, 2020, also said on Twitter that he and his wife Melania had Covid-19 and had to undergo “isolation procedures”.

Mrs Melania later said: “As many Americans have done, (President Donald Trump) and I are in home isolation after testing positive for Covid-19. We are feeling fine and will be postponing everything to our next meeting. Make sure you guys take care of yourselves. each of you are safe and we will all get through this together.”

At the time of being infected with Covid-19, Mr Trump was said to have ignored warnings from public health officials, shook hands with guests for a long time, initially opposed Covid-19 testing, was reluctant to enforce relaxation rules. to wear a mask in public.

The AP news agency cites statistics from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing that approximately 75.2% of US adults have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and 47.7% of them have been vaccinated. The CDC relaxed the requirement to wear masks indoors starting in late February.

Two years after the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared Covid-19 a global pandemic, the death toll from COVID-19 in the US reached 1 million as of March 13. The US currently records a total of 993,811 Covid-19 deaths, 81,174,677 cases and 56,071,103 recoveries.

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