Mexican communications mogul Carlos Slim, considered the richest man in Latin America, has been discharged and is “very well” after being hospitalized for covid-19, a source close to the businessman’s family said on Saturday.
Slim, 81, “has been at home since January 28 and is in very good health,” a source working for Grupo Carso, belonging to the tycoon’s family, told AFP.
Last Monday, Carlos Slim Domit, the tycoon’s son, announced on Twitter that the owner América Móvil went to a public hospital in Mexico “for clinical tests, monitoring and timely treatment.”
“He is very well. He had a very favorable evolution to COVID-19 after more than a week of minor symptoms,” Slim Domit added at the time, without specifying when his father was diagnosed.
Through its foundation, Slim participates in the financing of the covid-19 vaccine developed by the British laboratory AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.
The organic product is produced in Argentina and began to be bottled in Mexico for non-profit distribution in Latin America.
Slim is the richest man in Latin America, with an estimated fortune of 58.5 billion dollars, according to Forbes magazine, which places him in 21st place among the world’s millionaires.
América Móvil is the dominant telephone company on the Latin American market and has a presence in Europe, Austria and the United States.
Slim’s contagion came a day after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced positive results for covid-19.
José Kuri Harfush, a businessman close to Slim who was a consultant in two of the tycoon’s companies, died of coronavirus complications in July last year, at the age of 71.