Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday he tested positive for Covid-19 and that his case isn’t serious.
(Bloomberg) — Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday he tested positive for Covid-19 and that his case isn’t serious.
AMLO, as the president is known, said on Twitter he suspended a tour in Mexico’s southeast where he was checking on advances on the Train Maya, one of his major infrastructure projects, and that he’d returned to Mexico City.
The president is receiving medical treatment under isolation and is expected to return to his daily press conferences in two or three days, said on Monday the Interior Minister Adan Augusto Lopez, who is overseeing the pressers until then.
It’s the third time the Mexican president, who received the AstraZeneca vaccine, has contracted the illness, the previous time having been in January 2022. Lopez Obrador, 69, suffered a heart attack in 2013. “My heart is at 100,” he said in the tweet. He ended the tweet by saying “see you.”
(Updates with detail from Monday press conference in third paragraph)
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