US President Donald Trump says he is starting to feel better after being taken to hospital suffering from the coronavirus.
In the latest video posted during his stay, he said on Saturday that he was “starting to feel good” and was looking forward to “finishing up the campaign the way it was started”.
Speaking from his room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, a tired-looking Mr Trump said: “I came here, wasn’t feeling so well, I feel much better now.
“We are working hard to get me all the way back, I have to be back because we still have to make America great again.
“I’ll be back. I think I’ll be back soon and I look forward to finishing up the campaign the way it was started.”
The four-minute video comes after a day of contradictory messages from his staff and medical team about the state of his health since being diagnosed with the virus on Thursday night.
The medical team had said he was improving and was already talking about returning to the White House but minutes later his chief of staff Mark Meadows had told reporters that his vital signs during the previous 24 hours had been “very concerning”.
The 74-year-old is considered to be at higher risk of serious complications from coronavirus due to his age, the outcome of his recent physical tests, and the fact that he categorised as obese.
Mr Trump said: “Over the next period of a few days, I guess that’s the real test, so we’ll be seeing what happens over those next couple of days.”
The president’s physician said he has been put on a five-day course of remdesivir – an antiviral drug originally created to treat Ebola.
He was given another experimental treatment – an antibody drug developed by Regeneron – before he was flown to hospital by military helicopter on Friday.