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López Obrador tests positive for COVID-19 for the second time in less than a year
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), 68, declared this Monday that he tested positive for COVID-19, for the second time in almost 12 months, after a test that they demanded for appearing more flu-like than usual.
Despite not having aggravated symptoms, the national president assures that he will comply with the isolation recommended by specialists and will only dedicate himself to office work and will communicate to the country in a virtual way, until the disease is overcome.
At the end of the year, the Mexican head of state, who had his complete vaccination plan, received a third dose of AstraZeneca, as a booster dose.
The president clarified that the person in charge of giving the usual morning conferences during the next few days will be the Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López.
López Obrador, who suffers from hypertension and had cardiovascular failure in 2013, was already infected with Covid-19 at the beginning of 2021. Having publicly reported his infection on January 24, he had already returned to his presidential activities on February 8.
Last year during his first contagion, the president was always active and dynamic, he was confined in the National Palace and the doctors in charge decided to maintain discretion, claiming that he was “almost asymptomatic”, which generated a great wave of rumors about his health condition.
Later, on February 5, López Obrador himself made public that he had already overcome the disease, however, he was waiting for a medical examination to return on February 8.
During that time, according to López Obrador himself, he was treated by a group led by Jorge Alcocer, who is Secretary of Health, and made up of an internist, a cardiologist, a specialist from the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER), a tactical specialist of the Army and two of the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán.
Managing the Pandemic in Mexico
For his management of the pandemic in Mexico, López Obrador has received endless criticism from his adversaries.
In his third management report, he boasted of the control they had over the virus in the country, even though they had 4 million infected and more than 300,000 deaths, the fifth-highest figure in the world.
López Obrador appeared this Monday with symptoms of flu and decay. A week ago he had a meeting with Tatiana Clouthier, secretary of the economy, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday.
Upon seeing these symptoms and a hoarse voice, the journalists immediately asked questions about his health.
" Yes, I woke up hoarse, I'm going to take the test later, but I think it's the flu," replied the president.
Last Friday, the Mexican president did not undergo any tests because, according to what he said, he did not have any symptoms, despite the fact that the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests it in any case.
Despite the doubt of the contagion, President López Obrador did not appear with a mask and continued with his morning speech together with the lawyer Ricardo Sheffield, who was also not protected.
This day, the head of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), María Luisa Albores, reported that she had tested positive for COVID-19.
Data on the pandemic in Mexico
Mexico is finding a rise in Covid-19 infections after Christmas and with the appearance of the omicron variant, on Saturday Mexico registered 30,671 cases, another record of infections in one day.
So far, according to information from the Ministry of Health (SSa), Mexico has a total of 4,125,388 cases, of which 300,334 have died. In just over a year they have applied 151 million doses throughout the country.
The third dose of the vaccine is already being applied to people over 60 years of age, as suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO), despite the fact that in the other age groups the two-dose vaccination plan has not been completed.
