President Donald Trump is expected to leave Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he has been treated for Covid-19 since Friday, and fly back to the White House. Trump announced his departure in a tweet, saying he felt better and telling Americans not to be afraid of the virus that has so far killed 211,000 people in the U.S.

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