Jill Biden recovers from COVID-19

US First Lady Jill Biden has tested negative for the coronavirus twice, her spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander said, Reuters reports.

The fact that Jill Biden was diagnosed with coronavirus became known on August 16. The wife of the American president had mild symptoms similar to those experienced by people with a cold.

The president's wife was taking an antiviral drug from Pfizer Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir), her representative said. She was vaccinated twice and revaccinated twice.

Jill Biden, 71, has never had COVID-19 before. Her husband Joe Biden tested positive on July 21. He went into self-isolation and also showed mild symptoms. A few days later, Biden's test came back negative, as did the next three. However, on July 30, the president's test for coronavirus was again positive. In rare cases, this can happen in patients who have been treated with Paxlovid (Biden also took it), according to his doctor, Kevin O'Connor. In early August, Biden passed negative tests for coronavirus.