Prognosis

Mexico’s AMLO Gets Covid Third Time, Says Case Isn’t Serious

AMLO is expected to return to daily pressers in coming days
Interior Minister Lopez gave health update on Monday

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Photographer: Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg

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By Dale Quinn and Carolina Gonzalez

April 23, 2023 at 10:01 PM UTC

Updated on

April 24, 2023 at 1:32 PM UTC

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Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday he tested positive for Covid-19 and that his case isn’t serious.

AMLO, as the president is known, said on Twitter he suspended a tour in Mexico’s southeast where he was checking on advances on the Train Maya, one of his major infrastructure projects, and that he’d returned to Mexico City.