Mexico’s President Tests Positive for Covid-19

MEXICO CITY—Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated Sunday that he tested constructive for Covid-19 and was acquiring health-related remedy for what he called delicate signs.

Mr. López Obrador, sixty seven decades old, has continued traveling close to the country and attending general public activities even through a surge of Covid-19 bacterial infections strike the country about the past month. Mexico has suffered shut to one hundred fifty,000 confirmed Covid-19 deaths.

“As generally, I’m optimistic,” he stated in a tweet. “We’ll all get via this.”

Mr. López Obrador stated that he still intends to keep a telephone contact Monday morning with Russian President Vladimir Putin, to focus on Mexico’s achievable acquisition of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccines.

Mr. López Obrador stated he would be holding an eye on government matters from the Nationwide Palace in Mexico Town, where he life and conducts most of his responsibilities. Inside Minister Olga Sánchez Cordero will preside about his morning information conferences in the meantime. Mexico does not have a vice president who would formally get about responsibilities if the president falls ill.