US President Donald Trump has confirmed he and First Lady Melania have tested positive for Covid-19, adding they will begin the process of quarantine and recovery "immediately". "We will get through this together," Mr Trump said in a tweet as he announced the test result.

The news was later confirmed in a letter from the President's doctor. The White House physician confirmed President Trump will carry out his duties "without disruption" during quarantine which will take place "within the White House".

They are "both well," doctor Sean Conley said. "I expect the president to continue carrying out his duties without disruption while recovering".

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US man struck by covid twice and second time was far worse

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Trump intensifies focus on Harris in final weeks of campaign

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Coronavirus: Trump says in return to campaign trail that he feels ‘powerful’

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Donald Trump Claims He’s ‘Immune’ To Coronavirus Vows To Give Everyone At Rallies A ‘Big Fat Kiss’

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Donald Trump Tests Negative for COVID-19

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Donald Trump says he'll give 'big fat kiss' to rally crowd after beating coronavirus

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Trump, Biden try to line up by Fauci as they court voters

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Donald Trump tests negative for Covid-19, says physician

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U.S. election: Trump ready for 1st campaign rally since getting coronavirus

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Trump's doctor says he tested negative for Covid-19 on 'consecutive days' - but doesn't say which

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Trump tests negative for coronavirus, according to White House physician

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Trump ready for 1st rally since contracting coronavirus

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Trump vs. Biden: Where they stand on health, economy, more

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Sen. Mike Lee, recent COVID-19 patient, delivers SCOTUS hearing statement without mask

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Donald Trump caught faking video to appear like Covid-19 chief backed him

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Donald Trump claims he's immune from Coronavirus and now has a 'protective glow'

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Biden hits Trump on economic fallout amid COVID-19 pandemic in critical Pennsylvania county

FILE - Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden arrives to speak after touring a plumbers union training center in Erie, Pennsylvania on October 10, 2020.

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Jamaicans in Florida energized by Harris on 2020 ticket

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Trump wanted 'to rip open shirt to reveal Superman t-shirt to prove he's over Covid-19'

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If I catch covid-19, can I get the medications Donald Trump received?

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Drug that Trump claimed to cure him of covid may offer protection: Study

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White House says Donald Trump is 'no longer a transmission risk' after coronavirus diagnosis

Donald Trump is no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus, his doctor has said.

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Trump 'no longer considered a transmission risk' - WH doctor

US President Donald Trump is no longer contagious, nine days after being stopped in his tracks by Covid-19, his physician said in a statement released yesterday evening.

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Doctor says President Trump no longer at risk of transmitting coronavirus

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 05: U.S. President Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 05, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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An energized Trump appears in public for first time since covid-19 diagnosis

Donald Trump appeared back to his old self as he addressed supporters at the White House in his first public appearance since being diagnosed with COVID-19.Standing alone and not wearing a mask, the Republican president spoke from the White House balcony at an event called "a peaceful protest for law & order," urging a crowd of largely Black and Latino supporters to help get out the vote in the Nov.

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Trump hosts large crowd at White House following COVID-19 hospitalization

U.S. President Donald Trump hosted a crowd of supporters at the White House, just five days after leaving the hospital where he was being treated for COVID-19.

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Biden hits Trump on economy in critical Pennsylvania county

ERIE, Pa. – With the backdrop of a union facility in a key battleground county of Pennsylvania, Joe Biden on Saturday blistered President Donald Trump as only pretending to care about the working-class voters who helped flip the Rust Belt to the Republican column four years ago.“Anyone who actually does an honest day’s work sees him and his promises for what they are,” Biden told a masked, socially distanced crowd at a training facility for plumbers and other tradespeople.The Democratic challenger has hammered Trump on the economy in recent weeks, from sweeping indictments of how the president has downplayed the novel coronavirus and its economic fallout to a withering personal contrast between Biden’s middle-class upbringing with that of

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