The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “is practically asymptomatic,” reported this Thursday (01.28.2021) the Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, when presenting the daily report on the state of health of the president, who tested positive for COVID-19 last Sunday.
“The president is practically asymptomatic and he is also extremely active,” López-Gatell said. “His health is very good, he is calm, he is in a good mood, he is eager to return to return to his daily activities”, but he will have to “spend a few more days in isolation and relative rest,” he added.
The Secretary of the Interior (Interior), Olga Sánchez, who this week replaces the president in the morning press conferences, said that López Obrador is “very well” and “in the exercise of his duties.”
“We hope that he fulfills his period of voluntary isolation in the best possible way, as soon as the specialists give their approval, he will be back,” said Sánchez.
The Ministry of Health reported on Wednesday that the president has presented brief “fever episodes”, but “evolves positively.” “Little by little he is recovering his vigor and his health,” Jesús Ramírez, a government spokesman, tweeted.
AMLO used a face mask on few occasions
López Obrador, 67, hypertensive and who suffered a heart attack in 2013, has been in isolation for the fifth day since he began to present symptoms of the virus.
The leftist leader reported late Sunday that he had tested positive for COVID-19. The weekend he had public activities and traveled on commercial flights.
Several collaborators, including López-Gatell, a strategist in the fight against the pandemic, and the foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, who were in contact with the president in recent days, have undergone tests to find out if they even contracted the virus.
The Mexican president has been criticized for relativizing the effectiveness of the mask to prevent infections. He has only used it on a few occasions, such as last July, when he visited then-US President Donald Trump in Washington.
Although Mexico began vaccinating doctors against the virus on December 24, the president said he will wait his turn, in March, as established by the official calendar.
Mexico added more than 1.8 million infections and more than 150,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Thursday.
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