Joe Biden tests positive for Covid as calls grow for him to step down

Joe Biden has tested positive for covid for the second time as pressure mounts on him to quit.Overnight, the U.S president was seen making an incredibly slow exit from Air Force One.Concerns are growing over the 81-year-old's health after he tested Covid positive while on the campaign trail in Las Vegas.

He was experiencing "mild symptoms including “general malaise” from the infection, the White House said.Biden was seen struggling to get off Air Force One, pausing multiple times, as the maskless president stepped off the plane before putting a mask on inside a black SUV.

He needed some assistance as he gingerly got into the car before he was driven away to Rehoboth, the Mirror reports.Press secretary Karine Jean-Pieree said Biden will fly to his home in Delaware, where he will “self-isolate and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time”.

The news had first been shared by UnidosUS President and CEO Janet Murguía, who told guests at the group’s convention in Las Vegas that president had sent his regrets and could not appear because he tested positive for the virus.The president’s diagnosis comes amid intense scrutiny of his health and stamina after a disastrous debate with former President Donald Trump that sparked a flurry of concern among Democrats that Biden is not up to the rigors of winning another presidential term.Nearly two-thirds of Democrats say President Joe Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let his party nominate a different candidate, according to a new poll, sharply undercutting his post-debate claim that “average Democrats” are still with him even if some “big names” are turning on him.The new survey by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, conducted as