Mexico City — Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) confirmed Monday he has tested positive for Covid-19.
“I’m informing you that I have contracted Covid-19 and although the symptoms are mild, I will remain in isolation and only carry out work from my office, and I will communicate virtually until I get over it,” López Obrador tweeted.
This is the second time the Mexican president has contracted the virus, having tested positive on January 24, 2021.
López Obrador said his Interior Minister Adán Augusto López Hernádez will represent him at his daily morning press briefings, and at other events.
Asked about his health during Monday morning’s press briefing, López Obrador had said he believed he had a cold, but that he would get tested.
“I think it’s the flu,” he said.
The president had ruled out getting tested on January 7 after having been in close contact with his Economy Minister Tatiana Clouthier, who confirmed she had tested positive that same day.
“I don’t have symptoms. When one has symptoms one needs to get tested,” López Obrador said at the time.
The president received an AstraZeneca booster jab on December 7.
To January 10, Mexico had confirmed 4.13 million Covid-19 cases, of which 11,052 are new cases. The country’s death toll from the virus since the onset of the pandemic is 300,412, of which 78 are from the past 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry.
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