WASHINGTON >> First lady Jill Biden tested negative for the coronavirus on Thursday, the White House said, putting an apparent end to a minor health scare that had threatened to upend President Joe Biden’s trip to a Group of 20 summit in India.

The announcement came shortly before Joe Biden departed the White House for his trip to New Delhi, where he plans to lobby world leaders on matters that include condemning Russia’s war with Ukraine and curbing China’s financial influence over poorer countries. The president also tested negative for the virus Thursday, as he had throughout the week.

The White House had announced that Jill Biden, 72, had tested positive for the virus on Monday, after she and Joe Biden spent part of the weekend at their family home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

White House officials had said she was experiencing only mild symptoms of the virus.

— The New York Times