Donald Trump has spoken out from hospital in a lengthy address after being diagnosed with coronavirus on Friday.
Mr Trump started by thanking the medical staff at Walter Reed Medical Centre, before talking about "miracle" treatments of the future.
"I came here, I wasn't feeling so well, I feel much better now, we're working hard to get me all the way back," the US President said on Saturday night, local time. It is not clear when the video was recorded.
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"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," he said.
"We're going to beat this coronavirus or whatever you want to call it."
Mr Trump also went on to say he "just didn't want to stay in the White House" for quarantine.
"Stay in the White House, lock yourself in, don't ever leave, don't even go the Oval Office, just stay upstairs and enjoy it.
"Don't see people, don't talk to people and just be done with it, and I can't do that," he said.
"This is America, this is the United States, this is greatest country in the world, this is the most powerful country in the world and I can't be locked up in a room upstairs completely safe and just say hey, 'whatever happens happens'."
Mr Trump thanked leaders from around the world for their well wishes, and that Melania is also doing well – making a joke about how because she is younger than him is not as ill.
'Critical' 48 hours ahead
His chief of staff earlier revealed Mr Trump had gone through a "very concerning" period Friday and faces a "critical" next two days in his fight against COVID-19 at a military hospital — in contrast to a rosier assessment moments earlier by Trump doctors, who took pains not to reveal the president had received supplemental oxygen at the White House before his hospital admission.
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"We're still not on a clear path yet to a full recovery," White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said outside the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre.
Saturday's briefing by Navy Commander Dr Sean Conley and other doctors raised more questions than it answered.
Dr Conley repeatedly refused to say whether the president ever needed supplemental oxygen, despite repeated questioning, and declined to share key details including how high a fever Trump had been running before it came back down to a normal range.
Dr Conley also revealed that Trump had begun exhibiting "clinical indications" of COVID-19 on Thursday afternoon, earlier than previously known.
More to come.
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