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Saturday, March 14, 2020
Trump takes coronavirus test, awaiting results
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWASHINGTON — After days of resistance, US President Donald Trump says he was tested for the coronavirus as the White House stepped up precautions after his direct and indirect exposures to COVID-19.
Trump also tells reporters at a White House briefing that he had his temperature taken before stepping into the room and it was “totally normal.”
Trump had held out on testing for days, despite his interactions with at least three people who have since tested positive. Trump had said yesterday that he would probably take the test at some point, but the White House doctor said as recently as last night that no test was called for because he wasn’t exhibiting symptoms.
But the US president says he’d gone ahead with it after repeated questions from reporters at a news conference yesterday.
— AP
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