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President Donald Trump walks out of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to return to the White House after receiving treatments for COVID-19 on Oct. 5 in Bethesda, Md.  © AP

ALEX FANG, Nikkei staff writer

NEW YORK -- U.S. President Donald Trump, hospitalized since Friday after testing positive for COVID-19, was discharged from the military's premier medical center Monday evening.

Emerging from the hospital's main entrance at 6:38 p.m., Trump walked pass the press corps, giving multiple thumbs-ups before entering a car. After a short drive, Trump got in the Marine One helicopter, en route to the White House.

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