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<\/a><\/p>\nMEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is receiving medical treatment and self-isolating after testing positive for COVID-19, the country’s Interior Minister Adan Augusto said Monday in a morning press conference.<\/p>\n
Augusto said that Lopez Obrador was at the presidential headquarters and that the president had shown cold-like symptoms since Saturday. He denied a media report that the president had suffered a heart attack.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, local newspaper Diario de Yucatan reported that Lopez Obrador had suffered an apparent heart attack while on a trip to the Yucatan Peninsula, helping to fuel rumors about the President’s health which circulated widely on social media.<\/p>\n
Later that day, the president said he had tested positive for COVID-19. “It’s not serious,” he wrote on his official Twitter account. “My heart is at 100%.”<\/p>\n
This is the third known COVID-19 diagnosis for Lopez Obrador, 69, who had a serious heart attack in 2013. He reported mild symptoms from both of his previous bouts of COVID-19 at the height of the pandemic.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Raul Cortes, Writing by Isabel Woodford; Editing by Anthony Esposito and Sharon Singleton)<\/p>\n
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