Barack Obama says he tested positive for COVID-19

WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama introduced Sunday that he has examined optimistic for COVID-19. 

“I’ve had a scratchy throat for a pair days, however am feeling wonderful in any other case,” Obama defined in a tweet. “Michelle and I are grateful to be vaccinated and boosted, and he or she has examined detrimental.”

The previous president stated his COVID analysis is a reminder for individuals to get vaccinated, in the event that they have not already, at the same time as coronavirus instances drop. 

Again in March 2021, Barack and Michelle Obama joined three different former presidents and former first girls for a public service announcement to induce Individuals to get vaccinated. 

In response to CNN, the previous president had lately returned to Washington, D.C. after spending time in Hawaii for many of the winter. A supply instructed CNN that Obama examined optimistic whereas in DC. 

Because the world enters the third yr of the COVID-19 pandemic, many locations have rolled again restrictions in current weeks because the surge of instances from the omicron variant has dipped.

There have been roughly 35,000 infections on common over the previous week, down sharply from mid-January when that common was nearer to 800,000.

The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention report that 75.2% of U.S. adults are totally vaccinated and 47.7% of the totally vaccinated have acquired a booster shot. The CDC relaxed its pointers for indoor masking in late February, taking a extra holistic strategy that meant the overwhelming majority of Individuals dwell in areas with out the advice for indoor masking in public.

The Related Press contributed to this report.