Tổng thống Mỹ Donald Trump dương tính với virus corona

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President Trump revealed (tiết lộ) early Friday morning that he and the first lady, Melania Trump, had tested positive for the coronavirus, throwing the nation’s leadership (quyền lãnh đạo đất nước) into uncertainty (bất định) and escalating (leo thang) the crisis (khủng hoảng) posed by a pandemic (đại dịch) that has already killed more than 207,000 Americans and devastated (tàn phá) the economy (nền kinh tế).

Mr. Trump, who for months has played down (nói giảm nhẹ) the seriousness of the virus and hours earlier on Thursday night told an audience that “the end of the pandemic is in sight,” will quarantine (cách ly) in the White House for an unspecified period of time, forcing him to withdraw at least temporarily from the campaign trail only 32 days before the election on Nov. 3.

The dramatic disclosure came in a Twitter message just before 1 a.m. after a suspenseful evening following reports that Mr. Trump’s close adviser Hope Hicks had tested positive.