PCR test confirms positive covid-19 of Argentine President Alberto Fernández | International

The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, who turned 62 yesterday and had already been vaccinated against COVID-19, received this Saturday confirmation of having contracted the disease after having tested positive in a PCR test, according to a statement from the presidential medical unit.

“The diagnosis of COVID-19 infection is confirmed by receiving the positive PCR, making it clear that the clinical picture is mild due in large part to the protective effect of the vaccine received,” says the official statement signed by the doctor Federico Saavedra.

“I want to convey that today, I have evaluated the president who is stable, asymptomatic, with parameters within normal ranges,” he adds.

Fernández had previously confirmed that he tested positive for antigens, pending receipt of the result of the PCR test.

“I wanted to tell you that at the end of today, after presenting a fever record of 37.3 and a slight headache, I performed an antigen test whose result was positive,” the president wrote on his Twitter account in the early morning of this Saturday.

“Although we are awaiting confirmation through the PCR test, I am already isolated, complying with the current protocol and following the instructions of my personal doctor,” remarked Fernández, who on January 21 received the first dose of the Sputnik-V vaccine and on February 11 he was inoculated with the second, as reported to EFE from the Presidency.

“I feel good,” Fernández told AM 750 radio, where he explained that the doctor had fully reviewed him. “I don’t have any worrisome symptoms,” he added.