The statement does not say that Trump has tested negative, which almost likely means that he is still testing positive – or, as Trump appeared to say on Thursday, that he is simply refusing to be tested until the test would come back negative. As the White House physician releases a statement that doesn’t specify whether the US president is still on medication, here is what Trump had to say on Friday (from our story earlier on Trump’s White House event): In a Friday night interview on Fox News, Trump, who was given a cocktail of antiviral drugs and strong steroids during his hospital stay, insisted he was “medication-free”. “We pretty much finished, and now we’ll see how things go. But pretty much nothing,” Trump said when Fox medical analyst Dr Marc Siegel asked the president what medications he was still taking. In the Friday interview, Trump said he had been tested, but gave a vague answer about it. “I haven’t even found out numbers or anything yet,” he said. “But I’ve been retested and I know I’m at either the bottom of the scale or free.” You can read the full story here: More on what the statement does not say: The statement from White House physician Sean Conley also seems to indicate that Trump had a fever 24 hours ago: In these extraordinary times, the Guardian’s editorial independence has never been more important. Because no one sets our agenda, or edits our editor, we can keep delivering quality, trustworthy, fact-checked journalism each and every day. Free from commercial or political bias, we can report fearlessly on world events and challenge those in power. Your support protects the Guardian’s independence. We believe every one of us deserves equal access to accurate news and calm explanation. No matter how unpredictable the future feels, we will remain with you, delivering high quality news so we can all make critical decisions about our lives, health and security – based on fact, not fiction. Support the Guardian from as little as $1 – and it only takes a minute. Thank you. The statement from White House physician Dr Sean Conley does not say that Trump has tested negative. Instead Conley writes, “This morning’s PCR demonstrates, by currently recognised standards, [The President] is no longer considered a transmission risk to others.” The statement also says “there is no longer evidence of actively replicating the virus.” Trump no longer "a transmission risk to others" says White House doctor White House physician Sean Conley said President Donald Trump took a COVID-19 test on Saturday which showed that he is no longer a “transmission risk to others.” Conley said in a statement that tests show there is no longer evidence “of actively replicating virus.” The White House had no immediate comment on whether Conley’s statement indicated that the president had tested negative for the virus. Mexico’s Health Ministry on Saturday reported 4,577 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 135 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 814,328 cases and 83,642 deaths. The government says the real number of infected people is likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases: Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is still speaking. He has just said that he knows people are “getting very weary. They’re getting very fatigued.” We’ll leave it there and move on to other news now. I fully acknowledge that people are getting very weary.They’re getting very fatigued, they’re getting frustrated, we all are, we all want this to be over, but all of us deep down know, I think, that we can’t pretend it’s over just because we want it to be.I think we all know that and even those who for months and have been calling for every restriction to betaken off, I think, deep down they know that what that would - what that would mean and it wouldn’t mean anything good. So where you can take safer steps, you should. I acknowledge that there’s a lot of pain out there and people are really feeling it. That’s the nature of these things. This is - we’re well into the last quarter and people’s legs are tired, the game is very tight, and you just got to dig deep and find all of us - and find a way to get to that final siren, that is what we have to do and I’m really confident we will. That isn’t to say that there - there isn’t great need out there and great pain. That’s why we’re working to support people as much as we possibly can and that’s why the budget, when it’s delivered, will be unprecedented in the level of investment to underpin confidence, to repair damage, but also to make sure that 2021 is very, very different. In New Zealand, the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, on Sunday burnished her leadership credentials on the back of her successful response to the coronavirus pandemic at a campaign rally six days ahead of the country’s election on 17 October, Reuters reports. Polls show Ardern’s Labour Party is expected to win the election with a wide lead over the conservative National Party, and could form government in a coalition with the Greens and New Zealand First. “While there was no playbook for Covid-19, we went hard and early and committed to a strategy of elimination which has meant that when we’ve had new cases, we’ve circled and stamped them out and opened up our economy faster than others,” Ardern told a campaign rally in the capital Wellington. “I will always maintain that it has been and will continue to be the right thing to do.” New Zealand, with 1,514 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and just 25 deaths in a population of 5 million, has been hailed along with South Korea and Taiwan for its success in combating the novel coronavirus partly due to swift lockdown measures. Ardern, 40, became the world’s youngest female leader in 2017 and holds huge appeal following her strong response to the pandemic and her handling of last year’s shooting by a white supremacist at two mosques in New Zealand’s worst mass murder. She is running for re-election on a platform of boosting infrastructure spending, tackling the country’s chronic housing shortage, improving health care and achieving 100% renewable electricity by 2030. In other Australian news: Josh Frydenberg has “absolutely” recommitted to $130bn of middle and high-income tax cuts due to begin in 2024, despite the Coalition opting not to bring them forward in last week’s budget. Speaking on the ABC’s Insiders, the treasurer said the Coalition wanted government to act as a “catalyst” for recovery by allowing some businesses to fail while others grew and took advantage of tax concessions in the budget to hire and invest. The first polling on Tuesday’s budget, released on Sunday by the Australia Institute, suggests a majority of Australians believe it will benefit the economy, although most plan to save more than half their share of the $18bn income tax cuts. The budget brought forward stage two of income tax cuts, worth about $47 a week for high-income earners and provides a one-off $21 cut for middle-income earners in 2020-21 due to the extension of the low- and middle-income tax offset. According to the poll, with a sample of 1,005, 58% believe the budget will be good for the economy, and almost half (47%) think they will personally be better off: Andrews say that “outdoor activities” are on the table when he announces an easing of restrictions next weekend. A whole lot of outdoor activities is on the table. And we’ll also spend quite a bit of time thinking about what’s a safe group size for people outside to be able to come - to be able to join each other and to be part of the thing that we crave the most and that’s some of the connections that we have been deprived - we have had to go without for such a long period of time. ... I think it will be significant, it will be the stuff that people are really missing. The other thing, too, there are some outdoor industries, there are some outdoor workers. Andrews on the announcements happening next weekend: It’s about trying to give people a little bit of notice that I don’t think we’re going to be able to go as far in and as fast as we’d hoped but there will be significant changes.They won’t be as much as we’d hoped to do. But it’s not like next Sunday it will be the same rules that this Sunday is being conducted under. We will have more to say. Frustrating, I know, for everybody, I’m not in a position to detail what they’ll be. The day for that, in fact, will be Sunday.