US President Joe Biden has contracted Covid and has travelled to Delaware to isolate, with his sickness coming just days before he is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Al Jazeera reports.

Biden’s doctor has said the president’s symptoms are mild and he has received a dose of Paxlovid, but an expected recovery timeline has not been announced. Biden and Netanyahu were due to meet at the White House in Washington on Monday, with it unclear how his sickness would impact the meeting.

Netanyahu has faced criticism for visiting Washington, where he is controversially set to address a joint session of the US Congress, while ceasefire-for-captive talks have stalled.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid told Netanyahu that he shouldn’t “give a speech in the air-conditioning in Washington while the hostages are dying of suffocation in Gaza’s tunnels”.