Mexico City, Mexico.
President Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 67, announced this Sunday that he was diagnosed with covid-19 and that he is under “medical treatment”, even if he has mild symptoms.
“I am sorry to inform you that I am infected with COVID-19. The symptoms are mild, but they are already under medical treatment. As always, I’m optimistic. We will all move forward, “he said on social media.
López Obrador explained that in the following days the secretary from Government, Olga Sanchez Cordero, he will “represent” you in the morning press conferences that the president gives every day.
Although he gave positive results, the President assured that he would continue “waiting for public affairs in National Palace “, where he resides and that on Monday he will respond to the planned call with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to address the supply of the Russian vaccine.
“Tomorrow I will take a phone call with President Vladimir Putin because, regardless of the friendship, there is a possibility that they will send us the vaccine. Sputnik V “, he expressed.
On the same Sunday, Lopez Obrador participated in the inauguration of some facilities of National Guard in the state of San Luis Potosi together with the governor of the state, Juan Manuel Carreras, and security secretaries, Rosa Icela Rodr(…)speed; Marinei, Rafael Ojeda; and National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval.
He was on tour in the state on Saturday The new Leo where he also coincided with the governor, Jaime Rodríguez.
In none of his acts did the president wear a mask because Lopez Obrador he refused to wear it in public since the beginning of the pandemic.
Mexico accumulates 1.7 million patients and touches 150,000 Deaths from the new coronavirus after a week in which three records of infections and daily deaths were chained.
With these data, it is the fourth country in the world in number of deaths, behind United States, Brazil and India, in accordance with Johns Hopkins University. EFE