Mexican Billionaire With Covid Says We’ll All Get It in Time

  • Ricardo Salinas Pliego confirmed his Covid-19 diagnosis
  • The billionaire has been a vocal critic of lockdown measures
Ricardo Salinas PliegoPhotographer: Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg
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Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the head of Grupo Salinas and Latin America’s seventh-richest man, took to Twitter on Wednesday to confirm his Covid-19 diagnosis and say that everyone will get the infection eventually.

The billionaire -- who had previously called Mexico’s measures to contain the virus “authoritarian” and said they would wreck the economy -- accompanied the post with a picture of his treatment plan.