Photographer: Susana Gonzalez / Bloomberg
Photographer: Susana Gonzalez / Bloomberg
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Billionaire Carlos Slim has returned home to Mexico City after being hospitalized for Covid-19, a family member said.
Slim is recovering and recovering well, his son-in-law and spokesman Arturo Elias Ayub said on Saturday. The richest man in Latin America, who turned 81 this week, was hospitalized at the National Institute of Nutrition in Mexico City, where he was experiencing mild symptoms, Elias Ayub said earlier.
Slim is the richest person in the world with a net worth of $ 51.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Most of his fortune comes from the telecommunications giant America Movil SAB.
Mexico surpassed India in total Covid-19 deaths on Thursday, making it the third deadliest outbreak in the world.
On Friday, the President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador he assured the public that he had passed the “critical stage” of his own coronavirus infection and was recovering. The president, known as AMLO, spoke in a video posted online late Friday, marking his first appearance since revealing that he tested positive for the virus late Sunday.