US elections: Trump says ‘looks like I’m immune’ to COVID-19

The US presidential campaign is set to gear up again this week, as President Donald Trump aggressively returns to the trail after his doctor declared him no longer a risk of coronavirus transmission. In an interview aired on Fox News on Sunday, Trump said he no longer has COVID-19, adding it “looks like I’m immune” to the coronavirus. He did not say whether he had tested negative. The statement comes a day after Trump’s physician, Dr Sean Conley, said the president had taken a test on Saturday showing he was no longer “a transmission risk to others”, and there was no longer evidence “of actively replicating virus”. The White House at the time did not say whether Conley’s statement meant Trump had actually tested negative for the coronavirus. To date, the White House has also not released when Trump last tested negative for the virus before his positive test, making the timeline of his infection unclear. Later on Sunday, Twitter flagged a tweet by Trump in which the US President claimed he was immune to the coronavirus, saying it violated the social media platform’s rules about misleading information related to COVID-19. “A total and complete sign off from White House Doctors yesterday. That means I can’t get it (immune), and can’t give it. Very nice to know,” Trump said in the tweet. The post was flagged by Twitter with a disclaimer. “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19,” Twitter’s disclaimer read, adding that it had determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the tweet to remain accessible. A Twitter spokeswoman told Reuters news agency that the tweet made “misleading health claims” about COVID-19 and that engagements with the post would be “significantly limited,” as is standard in such cases. style="width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; left: 0;">