The Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, stated this Tuesday that the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been mild symptoms of the disease of Covid-19 as low-grade fever and headache.
At the evening lecture on Covid-19, the official explained that the federal president “is evolving well” two days after starting with the first symptoms of the illness.
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“At the time he had low-grade fever, that is, body temperature greater than 37.3 and less than 38 degrees Celsius in the axillary intake “, he said López-Gatell.
The Mexican president had headache last Sunday, the day he announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19, after arriving from a tour of Nuevo León and San Luis Potosí.
The undersecretary assured that the team in charge told him that Lopez Obrador “He’s in a very good mood” and has had no other symptoms of the disease.
In addition, the team that attends him “have been very careful not to exceed the use of medications,” he said. López-Gatell and commented that in consultations with the general population, the use of antibiotics is sometimes exceeded.
The Health Secretary, so far, has identified 11 direct contacts from Lopez Obrador from Friday morning until he left Mexico City.
Both San Luis Potosí and Nuevo León track the people who were in contact with the President during the tour that took place over the weekend, although they have not given a final report.
Among the members of the cabinet who had contact with Andrés Manuel López Obrador there is Olga Sánchez Cordero, Secretary of the Interior, and Marcelo Ebrard, head of the Ministry of Foreign Relations. Both have been negative on the first screening tests.
Other officials who had recent contact with the president and who have already tested negative are the governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, the governor of San Luis Potosí, Juan Manuel Carreras, and the governor of Nuevo León, Jaime Rodríguez Calderón ‘El Bronco’ , as well as the president’s wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller.
The Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell; the Secretary of Economy, Tatiana Clouthier, and other officials are kept in preventive isolation.
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