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a new very very well. how far has spread through the white house and congress more positive tests raised concerns about an event suspected of being the supersport or . the fight for intensifies with both sides by john and the media accused of targeting civilians. and taking a step towards peace in sudan's government and armed groups signed a deal but some groups shunned the agreement. statement of the l.a. lakers close in on the n.b.a. championship and all that latex comes to kenya with one of the 1st major sporting events in africa since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. it's just gone 11 am on the u.s. east coast where donald trump is in hospital receiving experimental treatment for covert 90 his physician is about to give an update on the president's condition

from the walter reed national military medical center that's in maryland you can see the podium there empty at the moment we're waiting for him to arrive we'll go to that just as soon as he does trump had been suffering from fever and fatigue the last update out of the white house on friday night was that the president had not needed any extra oxygen to help him breathe well earlier president trumpet tweeted that things are going well i think and he's been thanking his supporters mike hanna is outside the hospital in maryland will be speaking to him in just a moment but 1st his report on the developments that have put u.s. politics into new territory. president to everyone stood. minutes before he tweeted out this 5000 to thank everybody for the tremendous support. i think. we're going to make sure of the things we're the 1st lady's doing. so we're thank

you very much appreciated. here. he riped at the wall to retail and once again walked unassisted to a waiting car on his way to a special suite to the hospital where his staff say he will continue to work for the next few days democratic challenger joe biden stood on the same stage as the president on tuesday he tested negative for the virus on friday and sent his best wishes to eating jill and i send our thoughts to president trump and 1st lady melania trump for a swift recovery we will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and his family trump has several risk factors that put him in danger of complications from cope at 19 hughes in his mid seventy's and overweight we have to wait for the next 2 days. you know for some people get really sick within

hours but you know some people don't get sick until week after and still we have to really be carefully observing the situation trampas often chosen not to wear a mask including at his own rallies where many of his supporters reject the science behind the idea. his team including family members went mosque at the tuesday debate trump even ridiculed democratic candidate joe biden for wearing a mosque as recommended by virtually all public health experts i don't wear mess like him every time you see he's going to miss he could be speaking 200 feet away from him he shows up with the biggest mask i've ever seen thanks push and so where the president may have become infected have also turned to a ceremony in on off supreme court nominee amy coney beret which took place in the white house rose garden last saturday several people who attended that largely

mosque free event have since tested positive house speaker nancy pelosi sent a best wishes to the president but said this was a lesson to be learnt this is tragic it's very sad but it also is something that again is going into crowds unmasked and all the rest the sort of a brazen in the taishan for something like this to happen it's sad that it did but nonetheless hopeful that it will be a transition to a saner approach to what this virus is all about. well let's cross to mike now here in maryland and mike and 1st up we're expecting this day from the president's decision which should be happening any time no. questions yes indeed will dr sean connelly the personal physician is expected to give us 3 things within the limits he has come under a lot of pressure to release more information to the american people on the

president's condition he issued a written a memorandum in the course of the past 24 hours but there has been pressure on him to come and speak to the american people and explain exactly about the president's condition and importantly exactly what form of treatment the president is receiving now we know that he is being given an antibody cocktail an experimental drug that's not it's da approved we also know that he's been put on a course of rem disappear now this has been approved by the f.d.a. for emergency use its results data shows are somewhat modest it does reduce it would have a length of stay in a hospital of somebody suffering from coburg but because of its limited quantities as well as generally only administered to people in a critical condition so these are the drugs that we know that president trump has been administered disappear is an intravenous drug which is administered over a period of time that experimental cocktail i refer to regeneration is something

that is is also a say one dose. drug so we're waiting to hear exactly what condition the president is in how he spent the evening all we know so far is the fact that he was up and tweeting so late at night you heard that tweet early on in the bulletin but dr sean connelly expected at the podium within the next few minutes. yeah in my care we can see that brady right now he's incentives you say he's a jew i think the cycle cross about to soon as he does come out and so as donald trump is in the suite of rooms in the hospital behind you there's many many questions about the campaign the election campaign now and whether or not he'll be able to carry on with all the events that were planned. well very much so because president trump has based his campaign on in person rallies in recent weeks you sold a number of rallies a number of them at airports but at least one of them indoors so certainly this is

being a very important part of his campaign connecting directly with his followers incidentally some of whom you see behind me here a small group of supporters who've been standing vigil through the night but this has been thrown off the rails the fact that president trump has coronavirus the issues of questions that are raised as will be able to go and hold these massive meetings again on the other hand the democratic candidate joe biden has largely killed virtual meetings now in a way this is given the democrats an edge and this is the way they've been conducting the campaign so far and this may well be the way that president trump would be to contact his campaign in future the other issues of course funding all reports indicate that president trips funding is increasingly lower that is one of the reasons why it is believed he held these mass rallies rather than for example buying into television advertising as the democrats have done so all kinds of

impact on the selection campaign on the nature of the campaign how it is actually being run and this is of course critical with weeks away from the november election and these last few weeks of the campaign are absolutely seminal in terms of who is going to be the next president of the united states and here you have. president situation of the sitting president sitting in a hospital just weeks away from that election and it might really be there for the moment but with you as soon as we get an update from the address that we've expecting from dr sean connelly the president's physician as you can see nobody there yet to soon as he arrives we will get back to that straight away what mike was talking about some of the treatments being given to the president let's take a closer look at those 1st up rahm does appear is a and i will draw that was previously tested for a bota it's not approved by u.s. drug authorities but is being allowed for patients with severe covert 90 it is the

only medicine proven to help people recover more quickly around 4 days on average according to one study but the same data shows it does not reduce fatalities of the other treatment is an experimental antibody combination made by regeneration companies says it's trials show the cocktail reduces viral load and associated symptoms it too has not been approved but the company can give access for compassionate use which is what has happened in this case and also in clark is an associate professor in microbiology at university of reading and he explains how some of these antiviral drugs. well as i understand it if they can reject or given reject her or reading this is there now that you 2 quite different things were general and as i understand it it's an activity which will can be administered to help the immune system block the virus or to mop it up and destroy its rendez if

there is actually a viable route that interferes with the virus its life cycle and stops it from reproducing so really it's a sort of jewel approach where the doctors are trying to stimulate presidency in system to block and destroy the virus and administer a drug sort of suit growth which should stop it from replicating rendez if it is admits that all the data so far shows that it. shortens people since i was in the u.k. it east which is where i live people have to be in hospital not so much in the community and it shortened their state hospital so it's given to people as being given the u.k. to people who are well but not at the serious stages of the illness because we don't think it has an effect on them it doesn't save the most seriously ill people it shortens the symptoms all that sort of middle ground of people who need to be in

hospital but are not so serious that they need to be intensive care well president trumps kevin 1000 diagnosis has appended the race for the white house the potential political fallout remains unclear and no polling has yet been done to gauge 20 reactions but there are likely to be radical changes to the remainder of the campaign as rob reynolds reports. with the president hospitalized and facing a period of treatment and quarantine all trump campaign events are now on hold it's unclear if the next presidential debate scheduled for october 15th will go ahead. trump's last rally before the diagnosis was in minnesota on wednesday as usual he did not wear a mask and neither did many of his supporters trump had planned rallies in florida wisconsin and arizona over the next several days from campaign officials say the president's absence from the campaign trail is not particularly important.

in addition to. the british. troops infection also undercuts one of his central themes in these final days before the election which is that the pandemic is waning even though more than 207000 americans have died from it the end of the pandemic is in sight and next year will be one of the greatest years in the history of our country some voters may wonder if since the president could not keep himself or his wife safe from the pandemic he can keep the country safe from it it's definitely ironic to have that i'm sure that the best thing that her legacy is making fun of joe biden her and again last week he said that kind of it hurts the impacts now line so we don't wish any ill will to the president but it's not at all surprising given direction we just hope that this will cause

a change in the direction of his leadership and that he will curtail some of the activities like really the campaign rallies where essentially being. open and spreading this is around after testing negative for covert 19 democratic nominee joe biden continued his campaign and flew to michigan he expressed concern for trump and the 1st lady this is not. politics it's a bracing reminder to all of us that we have to take those wires seriously biden's events are generally small and strictly adhered to virus control recommendations including mask wearing and distancing in tuesday's debate mocked biden for wearing masks and questioned his intelligence because you know what there's nothing smart about now biden's caution seems to be the smarter approach robert oulds al jazeera when it's not clear how the president caught the virus but one possibility is last

saturday's event in the white house rose garden at least 7 people including 2 republican senators who attended trump supremes court nominees terri many have tested positive ad on shoes they trump was in ohio in for the 1st presidential debate with joe biden the president's on including family members they didn't wear masks in the debate moderator has said that trump did not arrive in time to get tested before the event took place on wednesday the president free to an election rally in minnesota with his aide who said she tested positive on thursday and despite that diagnosis from within his in a circle the president then attended a fund raiser at his bed binns the golf club in new jersey and former white house counsel and kellyanne conway and trump's campaign manager bill stepien have also tested positive conway was at the rose garden event last saturday or let's be now to talk to daniel lucy who's a professor of infectious disease is dr 1st of all what can we read into the

experimental drugs that the president has been given what does it tell us about his condition. we're difficult to be certain but the way i interpreted the fact that the president received this 2 entire body cocktail mean by this year u.s. company quote regenerating yesterday means that the his doctor doctors are very concerned about him that his symptoms. may be progressing and maybe more serious then just. they're not specific symptoms that could be a concern they have that there's wrongs are involved hopefully we'll hear about that from present trends doctor dr shandong here in just a couple of minutes but to me it was a very objective concerning sign that the president received notice to have the body cocktail yesterday we are at the white house before he was flown by helicopter

to the north terry hospital dr reid in bethesda maryland yes and as you say we will we will cross to that statement from the president's doctors just as soon as he starts to speak with it in the meantime. so the president was at this ceremony last saturday talking about his supreme court nominee and it seems that that could be a super spreader moment as they say to what degree is it going to be difficult to contact trace all those not just at that particular event but all the other events so that he subsequently went to in the following week. it will be difficult but it is being done i am confident now as we speak but will be difficult because of the large number of people and the relatively large number of other locations. where he visited in or other people that now we know are positive for the source of virus to

the causes cause of the 1000. as you know there are multiple other people who have tested positive. who were at the event last saturday 7 days ago at the white house. it's not to say that everyone got infected there we don't know for sure we really don't know who in a sense was the 1st person who spread the virus to others and it could have been more than one person but as you say there are challenges to being able to swiftly and accurately and comprehensively do the contact tracing going backwards in a sense but also going forward to identify the one who was exposed. so that they don't transmit the virus to other people but also said that if they get sick they can get the best care as fast as possible if the president is up and about fairly quickly given his age and weight. it's a short of

a complete recovery because you we do hear about these ongoing effects of covert 90 . yes and some proportion of people who have been 1000 have persistent symptoms where their fever or for tea or not being able to get back to their same level of mental acuity you know ability to think clearly whatever their baseline was before before coping. there's been a term associated with that now called long haul it's a little bit of an odd term i think but the message is that. the infection in the effects of the infection. can persist for 4 weeks or potentially even longer for months at this point the person i'm just hoping that he doesn't need to

go to intensive care unit doesn't need to be got a breathing machine and he makes a you know recovery physically and cognitively mentally you know as soon as possible and can get out of the hospital absolutely how important is it in your view that the messaging that has been coming out of the white house the messaging from the administration now changes given that the president himself has been infected by kind of at 19. well it's essential really and i hope that the president will change the messaging. tweet last night he used a 4 letter word in capitals it was l.-o. v.-e. a lot of which i. can't recall i don't read all of his thousands and thousands of tweets but i don't recall that being a predominant one of the past so. in all seriousness i do hope that person has that leader of this country where i am. does change just messaging because

as we all know. at least 208000. 11 united states of america have had laboratory confirmation on the virus infection and died more than 7300000 . people in this country and united states have had laboratory confirmed infection . a large of those i think would have been prevented and were preventable and going forward there are going to be many more people that get infected and her daughter unfortunately but there could be many fewer i believe that the president leads in the way that would be optimal in the way that i certainly hope that he does once he gets out of the hospital and even from from the hospital he could provide that leadership right now today right dr lucy great to get your expertise we do appreciate that let's talk to daniel lucey adjunct professor of infectious disease georgetown university forgive me i didn't mention where you are from the

1st instance but thanks very much indeed for that. thank you for your barber shop. but other news armenia's prime minister says his country faces a decisive moment as fighting intensifies and is going to curb back a media that's by john are accusing each other of shelling residential areas in the disputed region fighting is continued into a 7th day but it smith has the latest from the city of atlanta. the military here says that now 198 soldiers have been killed since fighting started on sunday and 14 civilians now they won't give specific details on advances or losses on the military front they say for security reasons but the military says the fighting has been and remains very intense all the way along the line of contact that says some 182200 kilometers down the eastern side of nagorno-karabakh and on the other side

as a john here in stepping back at the main city and go on a karabakh the mood has darkened considerably over the last 24 hours and that is because this city has been hit twice now with a series of attacks of large scale weaponry in 2 episodes and that's the 1st time that has happened here since the war ended in 1994 and we've seen more women and children trying to leave the town and more civilians sheltering in bunkers. bad by john she's been meeting with those displaced by fighting. many of the people living in the villages and of the town center of tarts are have moved to saturday where we are i'm right now in the city center town central by that and just a few always ago i visited if i visit a school of public building where this place people were sleeping for the last

couple of days they there are no places that they can stay that's why most of the public buildings are safe for the internal of this place 2345 families sharing one room the old one for sharing one bathroom and they are saying that they didn't have anything with them except for their close own and their slippers or shoes and they are waiting to go back when the attacks finished but i have to say that people are very emotional here because they say they are attacked in their own soil from their own soil and maimed and they say they have no problem with their men and people but of course it will be it will it will take some time to see how this conflict is going to shape up. sudan's transitional government to sign the peace deal with rebel groups sort of. sudan's capital juba the deal was agreed in august and.

left millions displaced and hundreds of thousands of people did however not 2 groups of showing up here were morgan has been watching developments from the sudanese capital of khartoum. this signing ceremony today that is happening in the south sudanese capital juba includes various armed groups and the sudanese revolutionary front coalition there are 2 major groups that are not signatories to this deal we have the sudan liberation sudan people's liberation movement led by abbott as these 2 who have strongholds in the southern states of south kordofan and blue nile state now he has signed a declaration of principle with the transitional government last month this paves way for negotiations for the start of negotiations between the under of that as he said hello and the transitional government but the dates for that are yet to be set now he has made many major demands that has already been and compas in that declination of principles one of them being separating states state affairs from

religious affairs saying that the country should be secular and that they should have the right to self-determination or referendum if you like the other group is the sudan's liberation movement led by. who is currently in france but has strongholds in the central darfur region now he has described the negotiations of this deal that is currently being signed and the process as similar to the previous process as civil and similar to previous deals that have been signed between the previous government that was overthrown in 2019 in april 29th team and various other groups he says that this does not guarantee peace in sudan and that it does not address the root causes of conflict so in light of the absence of these 2 major groups it doesn't look like this peace deal is comprehensive but the sudanese transitional government and those who have signed it are celebrating it saying that it paves the way for. economic and political stability. human rights groups say they're increasingly concerned at the number of civilians in northern mozambique who are being beaten tortured and hated government forces have confronted armed

groups fighting to create an islamic state in cover delgado province for the past 3 years both sides are accused of targeting civilians in their battle for control welcome web presence for. so we're calling him to protect his identity he says he was on his way to the market in northern mozambique when military police stopped him and beat him. and later filmed it on a mobile phone government security forces are fighting armed groups in cabo delgado province. moose is one of a growing number of civilians who complain of uses by police and soldiers and. one of them called me hey come here he had a gun on me he asked me about my id card and at that moment i didn't have it he told me to lie on the floor and he told his colleague to hit me with a baton he hit me 14 times on the head and the buttocks before i was sent away. government troops have been accused of consistent abuses against civilians since

the conflict began 3 years ago the fighting armed groups known locally as al-shabaab you say they want to create an islamic state. this video which circulated on social media last month appears to show mozambican soldiers. accused a naked woman of being a member of al-shabaab as she tries to run away she's beaten. and then shot dead. rights group amnesty international says its analysis has verified the video and that it proves government rights violations. government condemn the killing and other abuses against civilians but often blames them on the armed groups and that is the military never violated human rights in the north an area of operations killing a terrorist is not a violation of human rights videos of men in mozambique in military uniforms committing abuses such as lethal beatings and beheadings have become common on

social media in recent months the government says rebels steal and where military uniforms rights groups say nobody is held to account well my soul just think that what they're not. but they're very sure that nothing is going to happen to them because the man won't demand that. all of those we love. and the actions. the armed groups are accused of widespread abuses to you. including beheadings and burning homes. they've made significant gains this year taking control of some towns as seen here in the center of one of them the government struggling to fight back violence has caused more than 200000 people to flee their homes. rights groups say if the people can trust the government and its soldiers the conflict will only care worth malcolm web al jazeera. well it's another measure

on only who's the director of the center for democracy in development in the capital maputo and he says the government seems to be looking after its own interests and neglecting civilians government now i mean we've. got. to combine with it's immediately. we are all transparent. or. can. also order problem in government schools sauve every morning nor. will government least asking us. from the european union to watch laos the situation there but we have been expecting that in which the court foreign subject which is. the european union of politics seems to.

me. that it is it the moment it is no clear direction and that will be the way out what you see. in that what with wonder what. the west see if the government seems to be more interested if. you just international oil company bankrupt it. badly will be if not properly out. of that market. plenty more still to come here on al-jazeera this is the scene. in maryland wrote devoid of people remember the one person waiting for the official white house door to show him calmly he will soon we hope give an update on president donald trump's condition at the walter reed medical center where he is being treated for current of ours. india becomes the 3rd country off the united states in brazil where the number of death recruit of ours has crossed 100000 an expert coming up to you it's taken 22 years but at long last the san

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a little heavier as we go through monday could see some clouds floating in and around more than possible around as a result of that here in doha positively chilly temperatures no higher than around 34 celsius still in the humor side i suspect session phil it's cold as that might suggest showers there doubts was the western side of yemen pushing across the southern end of the red sea am got is all showers across central parts of africa little more cloud showing up across southern africa just down towards botswana zimbabwe the western. other remains around the east and types of types still seeing a few showers and notice it does for the eastern side. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop their energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely

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but again you're watching al-jazeera remind of our top stories. at the official white house doctor sean connelly will arrive here soon we hope to give an update on president donald trump's condition at the walter reed medical center he was about half an hour ago but he hasn't arrived yet we will go to that just as soon as he does come out trump of course is suffering a fever in front teeth and receiving experimental treatment. media and azerbaijan are accusing each other of shelling residential areas as the conflict of a new corner karabakh continues fierce fighting is underway despite international calls for a cease fire. and sudan has transitional government signed a peace deal with rebel groups at a ceremony in neighboring south sudan the deal that was agreed in august and aims to end decades or fighting that's left hundreds of thousands of people dead.

well president trump is just one of hundreds of thousands of americans of course who've been infected with coronavirus the united states is the worst affected country in the world just over 48000 new cases were reported on friday alone in europe spain is limiting who can get in and out of the capital as part of a new lockdown it's been imposed by the central government but madrid's regional administration is pushing back india has recorded its 100000 death from cave at 19 nearly 6 and a half 1000000 people there have tested positive. well let's take this on let's speak to dr rio john who's a public health expert a consultant to the world health organization joins us from in the indian state of care and dr john welcome to the program 100000 deaths is the 3rd highest death toll 6 and a half 1000000 cases nearly and i think it's right to say isn't that it could be a lot more how reliable do you think those figures are. well i think if

a man to show. us the right is saying you know you have reported more than a 100000 cases but that there are a lot of reports out there which suggests that there may be quite a bit under me going on so be concrete all of that but then b.d.d. khan it's probably just going to fight to the east end of reporting but you know there's always doubt want to know what you think scandal and pointing actually happening right it does have the highest number of recovered patients they sued so what do we read into that it's. not a group of money is in need and it isn't that it is quite clear that you know the kind of infection that is happening in india is not quite severe because of our demographic dividend in death we have a pretty young population in the country so that the number of people who are infected quite severely is pretty limited unlike in many other countries and that is also the one of the uses why we need all or what that it do they didn't get

compared to many autistic people in the abu laith of the population but that old median age come pick in many other countries is it although if this is a plea of these and why the number of deaths of 7 is quite low compared to most other countries out there yeah interesting this is always going to be a huge challenge in india always likely to happen i guess with a population of 1300000000 what do you think the government should have done and should do now to stop this could be any with us. well i think one of the things that the government should have done right from the beginning is to really all wrap up that besting all the people you know but that has been lacking quite a bit bite from the beginning and. i think it's clear from many of the ways that us have been essentially one of the subtle ways by going to stop many good body i c m r which it does that open a study across the country such a state that actually that number of cases 20 times higher than the number of cases

it's clearly means there are a lot of cases that of which i don't expect or you know and that. i was. just leaving to joel because we go to the walter reed medical facility in maryland united states where the presidents don't to go to sean connelly when it is about to speak let's have a listen in dr sean connelly position of the president. this morning i'd like to start by 1st sharing with the president and 1st family 1st lady stream we grateful for the enormous support and prayers that the whole world and country have been providing ensuring i'd like to think colonel andrew barr and all the medical and support staff your walter reed for the tireless efforts providing everything and anything the medical team president i could be sworn in the president is doing very well. behind me are some of the members of the president's medical team whom i'd

like to introduce. dr sean dooley pulmonary critical care dr brian parable of the homeowner in critical care dr robert browning pulmonary critical care dr jason blair lock infectious disease doctor wes campbell infectious disease dr john hodgman and seizure. major kurt kline army nurse commander meghan as ready navy nurse lieutenant giuliana live live opa navy nurse tending the 10 commander john shea clinical pharmacist and not present with us or lieutenant beth carter lieutenant marini hand both navy nurses and dr jesse show now director executive medicine program. as reported yesterday consultation with this group i recommended we bring the president up to walter reed the precautionary measure measure. to provide state of the art monitoring and any care that he may

need just 72 hours into the diagnosis now the 1st week of it in a particular day 7 to 10 of the most critical in determining the likely course of this illness at this time the team and i are extremely happy with the progress the president has made there is a he had a mild cough and some nasal congestion and fatigue all of which are now resolving improving at this time and like to bring up dr dooley to discuss some of the specifics of the president's care. thank you in a good afternoon dr shaw do is dr conley mention. of start off by mentioning what it what an incredible hulk really proud i am of our medical team assembled behind me in the honor it's been the care for the president over these last 24 hours here at walter reed. he's receiving outstanding multidisciplinary care.

stay the science for coronavirus infection. we are monitoring him very closely for any evidence of complications from either the coronavirus illness or the therapies that we are prescribing to make him better. we have monitor is cardiac function is kidney function is liver function all of those are normal and the president this morning is not on oxygen not having difficulty breathing or walking around the white house medical unit up stairs he's an exceptionally good spirits and in fact as we were completing our multidisciplinary rounds this morning the he left us with was i feel like i could walk out of here today and that was a very encouraging comment from the president. but for the i'll go ahead introduce start to garibaldi he will talk about some of our therapeutics and the plan for a plan of care for today thank you. thank you dr

julian i like to echo the sentiment from the entire team what a honor and a privilege it is to be part of this most the display unit to care for the president. about 40 hours ago the president received a special antibody therapy directed against the coronavirus and we're working very closely with the company to monitor him in terms of that outcome yesterday evening he received his 1st dose of i.v. ramdass severe and our plan is to continue a 5 day treatment course for and us of air and the big plan for today since he's in such great spirits and doing well is to encourage him to eat to drink to stay hydrated to be up out of bed and to be working and doing the thing he things that he needs to do to get well. now refer dr connelly and questions. thanks brian. it's important that the president spend schieffer free for over 24 hours we remain cautiously optimistic but he's doing great. with that 0 one other note it should be clear that he's got plenty of work to get done

from the chief of staff. and he's doing it. but that if there's a couple questions about the president's health in the last couple days. yes so the last saturation that we had up walking around he was about 96 percent. is not received any supplemental he's not on oxygen right now that's right. you've received any at all he's he's not needed anybody any this morning today at all that's right do you know he's do you have an estimated date when he might be discharged well i don't want to put a hard date on that he's doing so well but the with the known course of the on this day 7 to 10 we get really concerned about the inflammatory phase of these 2. given that we provided some of these events there be so early in the course a little bit earlier than to most of the patients we know and follow it's hard to

tell where he is on that course and so every day we're evaluating does he need to be here what is he need and where is he going. yes the probability that he will be supplemental oxygen going forward i don't want to put a percentage on that but but right now all indicators are that. the hill remain off of oxygen going forward if terms of like blood clots pneumonia bacterial infection what do you see is the press on that front we know that all of them are risks associated with this condition. he is receiving all of the standard of care and be off. of her routine international code protocols i'm so over monitoring for all of that but at the moment there's no cause for concern you said he was he to be performing at what was just before what happened. i'd rather not give any specific numbers but it but he did have a fever thursday into friday and since friday morning he's had not i think day that

kept him there by i'm sorry why graham if you're on top of it. so rendez if it works a little bit differently than the other bodies we're maximizing all aspects of his care attacking this virus you know multi-pronged approach is the president i don't want to hold anything back if there was any possibility that it would have value to his care and expedite his return. i want to take it. to create a sort of a suit back to what the date of the president's last negative test i'm not going to get into all 'd the testing going back but but he said all the 17 routinely are tested and so doctors well that's the protocol for president pretty serious and. it's the same as any hospital yes. we have an area that's clean that you

put your equipment on and then beyond that everybody is fully masks gloves were protecting ourselves and it's a risk if you. on a screen it's been a sight of a lot of damage whatsoever we are we are following all that we do dearly ultrasounds to deal with lab work the team is tracking all of that survive any type of damage are not going to go into specifics of what the findings if you don't know i doubt are one thing has he ever been on supplemental oxygen he right now he is not i don't you keep saying what you have but should we read into the fact that he had been free yesterday and today he was not on oxygen so he has not been on it during this has covered treatment and he said he's not on oxygen right now and i think that we're trying to consider that the vibe that you can offer the president we discussed it he asked about it he's not on it now and that there are no symptoms has he also experienced difficulty breathing no no he has not never did it will call it the fever more than anything he's felt rundown who is handling heart attack

tracing is that the white house or c.d.c. is the white house. white house medical unit conjunction with the you know club bridge with c.d.c. local state health departments are conducting the whole context missing person so you've got lots. of the public i think made me think that that was that wednesday. thursday afternoon. following. this all i knew the news of a close contact is when we repeated testing. and given kind of clinical indications a little bit more concern and that's when that late that night we got the p.c.r. confirmation that that he was is there any clarity on how he became infected and i'm going to go into that. as far as his care it's irrelevant or when he became infected yeah we're going to go into that we're just tracking 6 of course right here with. the president for all to get at the 5 days in the future if. we discuss

that right now if he needs all 5 days that will likely be the course with pretty good every day we're reviewing with the team his. needs for being here and as soon as he gets the point where it's not a requirement he may still need some care but if we can provide that downtown at the house. then we will transition at that point as long as it's safe for appropriate team groups in addition to his weight doesn't have any other pressing factors that make him more risk for sort of a severe case well not particularly nice he's 74 he's now. and he's slightly overweight. other than that he's very healthy. sculptural scrape is put pressure is great it's not on medications that. he's up and active you still the activity the days leading up to the long hours and everything else he's able to handle so you're out there i don't like heart rate blood pressure and temperature

but with his heart rate is in the seventy's the eighty's his blood pressure has remained where it is where it's historically been growing or physical. you know the 110 to 12 of these is thought he's great it's never budged had no concerns there so why was the decision made to transfer him because the present united states and the doctors have found that the prone position is helpful or covert if he'd been at all you know we actually asked about that he did thursday to friday. he's been briefed but tests were small scientists for months and he brought that up you know as we were discussing his cough and the time his oxygen levels were ok i didn't feel that we need to do that we came up here to discuss that with the team as well we consider all options but he's not needed and that is why wasn't the 1st lady admitted as well and the 1st lady's to agree thanks for asking she has no indication for hospitalization to finance their she's come to listening at home.

thank you i try to do that work that i know you said there is no yeah no it's better off because i know he's now on our oxygen but video today i didn't receive any on thursday and he's so they say. no no there is. you know there's enough i guess that that's what you know that was my work thursday no oxygen not at this moment yeah and yesterday with the team well we were all here he was not on oxygen so had the president actually bad that we needed them as a nation to do this after the president is a patient at walter reed national tournament which. is the only steroids that the press think that you have got thank you very much like you and ok. that was the doctor for the president of the united states talk to sean connelly with an army a veritable army of white coats and mosques behind him he said the president is doing very well he came to the walter reed hospital to provide as a precautionary measure and said that 72 hours in he is there will be extremely

happy on thursday the president had a mild cough and fatigue all of that is now improving he has been fever free for 24 hours and he could not give a timetable for the president's release if you want to put it that way from hospital let's join my kind of who's outside the hospital in maryland has been monitoring that statement from the president's doctor and a couple of others doctors do mean the garibaldi and it seems that the president mike is doing well. well it does appear to be at this stage a very good diagnosis for the president particularly is the lack of fever according to the doctors the fact that he has not been on oxygen that he's not on oxygen at the moment as the doctors continue to repeat so all indications are is that the president is recuperating well that once again the doctors saying they don't want to put any hard data on the timeframe for his release they will continue to monitor

him pointing out to as well is that the 1st week of treatment for a covert patient is absolutely critical votes again making clear the timeline here the doctors saying that we are now 72 hours since his diagnosis now on that particular point there's an interesting fact as well is that the doctor referred specifically to the type of test that confirmed the president's covert status and that is that p.c. artist now what this all means is that the white house has been using as a standard and to gen test which is a very quick one takes about 15 minutes to get a result very an invasive however it does have a problem with some of the data being incorrect now the p.c. artist is able invasive procedure it takes a number of hours if not days in some cases for the result to come back and it was only after the president had that p.c.r.

test beds covert status was confirmed this is ramifications for the whole protocol surrounding the white house's measures against 19 in particular the fact that it insists on using that very quick test for most of its screening around the president certainly this is going to lead to a review of those particular procedures but they're fanning sought medical advice to make it very clear that the president is doing well a resting well and i must also add as well that the 1st lady melania trump according to the doctors she's doing well she's written. at the white house. we heard from bill to duty who said to his car the kid need liver function normal as you say not on oxygen and he was walking around in the medical unit the white house medical unit up stairs and he said to the president say i feel as if i could walk out of here today to what degree is the medical unit equipped as a kind of a hospital version of the oval office and can you just carry on with his

presidential duties from there if he's fit enough. will according to staff that's one of the reasons why it's being moved here because you do have that state of the art monitoring systems within the hospital which is far greater than what he had at the white house at the same time he's in a what the staff here refer to the presidential suite fully equipped suite use able to carry out whatever functions he needs to carry out as the head of state so certainly he is according to his staff continuing to we're continuing to be in touch with mentors of his cabinet members of his government but on that particular note i'm asked and one thing is that there has been no direct briefing of senior members of congress by the white house to this particular point senior members of congress like the general public have waited for statements like this from his medical staff to have some idea about the president's condition there has been some mutterings about this among members of congress expecting at the very least that

they would have been informed of the covert status of the president obviously this is a very critical part for all sectors of government but that being said we do hear now that the president continuing to function and you mentioned there as well something that's very important is doctors saying that his oxygen levels are normal now this is once again a critical key a reduction in the rate of oxygen in the blood vessels is a clear indicator of a little worsening of the situation now it's things like this. the president is being kept under observation here at another point that is important is that not only is he being monitored for response to all the coronavirus itself but he's also being monitored according to the doctors for his reaction to that experimental drugs that he was given regeneration that doctors make it very clear that there is a dual fact going on here obviously monitoring the status of the covert virus but

at the same time as well monitoring what is happening to is body as a consequence of i think experimental drug which has not been cleared by the f.d.a. it's not in its final clinical trials in a way that the president himself becoming part of a critical trial for an experimental drug cocktail so all of these factors emerging certainly a lot more detail than we've had in the past 24 hours has to the president's condition but to emphasize that bottom line is doctors saying that he's doing very well he is not on oxygen and that he will continue to be monitored for an unspecified number of days here at the hospital where mike thanks very much as we will this just to recap there is pictures of dr sean connelly he recently came out in the last few minutes of the president's doctor saying that the president is doing very well he went up to the walter reed hospital in maryland as

a precautionary measure and his a mild cough fatigue is now improving and he has been fever free for 24 hours i'll be back in a couple minutes i think. not just the republican party but america needs 4 more years of president donald trump in the white house then the outcome of this election will determine i believe the poorest of our country for generations to come food live coverage of the vice presidential debates. just 2 planes from studio and 15

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i'm similarities have cultures across the wound. so no matter what you seek out is new iraq will bring you the news and current fast that matter to you. al-jazeera. ready. fever free and breathing well doctors give an update on the u.s. president's health ease in hospital after being infected with copd 90. at this time the team and i are extremely happy with the progress the president has made. ironically this is not 0 life in doha also coming up power far as the infections.