President arrives at White House, removes mask and salutes

In a tweet announcing the move, Trump wrote, "Don't be afraid of Covid."

President Donald Trump's condition is continuing to improve as he fights a coronavirus infection, doctors said, and he left Walter Reed Medical Center on Monday evening, landing at the White House shortly before 7 p.m.

Doctors also reported that Trump, over the course of exhibiting coronavirus symptoms, had earlier experienced two episodes of "transient drops" in his oxygen saturation.

Yet the president was feeling well enough Sunday evening to briefly leave Walter Reed for a surprise drive-by, waving to supporters outside the hospital.

Administration member Judd Deere subsequently put out a statement saying that, "President Trump took a short, last-minute motorcade ride to wave to his supporters outside and has now returned to the Presidential Suite inside Walter Reed."

Meanwhile, numerous questions remain about how many people at the highest levels of government had been exposed to the virus after a week of events involving the president where social distancing and mask-wearing were lax in the White House and elsewhere.


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Trump has met or exceeded all discharge criteria

President Donald Trump will be discharged from Walter Reed Medical Center on Monday, the president's medical team announced.

Over the last 24 hours the president has "continued to improve" and has "met or exceeded all discharge criteria."

Trump will be given another dose of remdesivir at the hospital and then be discharged back to the White House.


More White House staff working remotely Monday, official says

White House deputy press secretary Brian Morgenstern told reporters on Monday that more White House staff are working remotely Monday after a number of staff members, including press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and two other press officials, tested positive for the coronavirus.

"When a case is identified and people are -- think they may be potentially exposed, you step up the precautions. That's exactly what we've been advised to do by the health professionals, so that's what we're doing," he said.

Morgenstern would not directly say if the White House was having any second thoughts about how they've handled the COVID-19 precautions and claimed the administration has been following health professionals' recommendations.

"We've been in the pandemic now for many months. We know what to do when someone gets sick. It's we reassess, has anybody been in close contact, do they need to get another test, do they need to work remotely -- that's what we're seeing. Kayleigh's carrying it out, really being a perfect example of that right now," he said.

Asked why White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany hadn’t quarantined after having close contact with Hope Hicks, who tested positive last week, Morgenstern said the White House’s practice was only to quarantine if you were having “any symptoms or a positive test yourself.”

He denied the White House had been flouting COVID recommendations.

“We’ve been taking the precautions that we need to take,” he said. “That’s what we’re doing right now in response to changing circumstances,” he said.

Morgenstern declined to say how many people in the West Wing have tested positive for COVID-19.

-ABC News' Ben Gittleson


Trump says he will leave hospital Monday evening.

President Trump tweeted that he will leave Walter Reed Medical Center at 6:30 p.m. on Monday.

"Don't be afraid of Covid," the president said. "Don't let it dominate your life."


Trump medical team to give update on president

The medical team treating President Trump will hold a press briefing during the 3 p.m. hour at Walter Reed Medical Center, according to White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere.


Trump departing Walter Reed for White House

After spending three nights in the hospital, Trump is departing Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, en route to the White House, despite not having completed his full COVID-19 treatment.

Trump -- in a mask -- surrounded by Secret Service -- walked out of the hospital at 6:38 p.m. ET and waved to reporters as he entered a vehicle to take him to Marine One.

He did not answer shouted questions from the press on the health of his staff.

The president tweeted shortly before his departure that he "Will be back on the Campaign Trail soon!!!"

Earlier in the day, the president’s physician said he supported Trump's move to the White House but also acknowledged the president is “not necessarily out of the woods yet” and that he is on “uncharted territory” in terms of his treatment.

Guidelines from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention say that transporting a patient “outside of their room should be limited to medically essential purposes.”

Trump arrived on Friday evening after announcing at 12:54 a.m. on Twitter that he had tested positive for COVID-19.