After testing negative for Covid for a second straight day on Sunday, US President Joe Biden was allowed to leave the White House for the first time since July 20.
Biden, 79, tested positive for Covid and was placed in seclusion again on July 30 as a result, which his physicians explained as a "rebound" positivity from an earlier sickness.
“I’m feeling good,” the smiling president told pool reporters at the White House as he boarded a helicopter which then flew him to his beach home in Delaware.
He was also optimistic about a sweeping climate and health care bill that was being debated in the Senate overnight Sunday, telling reporters: “I think it’s going to pass.”
The president “will safely return to public engagement and presidential travel,” his physician Kevin O’Connor said in a statement announcing the negative test.
According to Biden’s official schedule he is set to travel to the southern state of Kentucky, the scene of devastating floods, on Monday.