Trump flown to hospital after Covid-19 diagnosis

The US President Donald Trump has been flown to hospital after testing positive for coronavirus.

His doctor said Mr Trump was ‘fatigued but in good spirits’ and, in a later update, that he was doing well.

To corroborate his doctor’s claim, Mr Trump also released a recorded video message before being flown to hospital where he said ‘I think I’m doing very well’.

Mr Trump has so far been treated with an experimental drug cocktail injection and the antiviral medication Remdesivir after both he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for Covid-19.

In exactly one month, Mr Trump faces Joe Biden in the presidential election.

The president’s diagnosis has upended his campaign and also cast doubt on his attempt to get a new Supreme Court judge confirmed before polling day.

The latest update from Mr Trump’s physician, Sean Conley, in a memorandum late on Friday, read: ‘I am happy to report that the president is doing very well’. He said the president was not in need of supplemental oxygen.

Mr Trump was taken to hospital ‘out of an abundance of caution’ and would be there for the ‘next few days’, the White House confirmed. His symptoms include a fever, sources have told the US media.

The list of other people to have tested positive around Mr Trump include close aide Hope Hicks—believed to be the first to show symptoms –campaign manager Bill Stepien and former White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway. Republican Senators Mike Lee and Thom Tillis have also tested positive.