Admitted to a military hospital near Washington on Friday after contracting the coronavirus, US President Donald Trump appears to be doing better.

The White House doctor announced that he had not had a fever for 24 hours.

President Donald Trump is currently not receiving supplementation with oxygen and has not had a fever for 24 hours, White House doctor Sean Conley said on Saturday, assuring that the leader was "very well".

His level of oxygen saturation is 96%, according to the doctor at a press conference at the Walter Reed military hospital near Washington, where Donald Trump was admitted on Friday.

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One month before the election, the president of the world's largest power left the White House on Friday to reach Walter Reed's hospital in a helicopter on the outskirts of Washington.

Sean Conley then specified that Melania Trump, also infected, suffered from a "mild cough and headaches".

According to one of Donald Trump's advisers, the president's team did not wear a mask during the preparations for the debate against Joe Biden.

Ditto for the president's family, who attended the same debate with their face uncovered. 

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