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Argentine President Alberto Fernández, who turned 62 on Friday and had previously been vaccinated against COVID-19, announced that he had tested positive for coronavirus according to an antigen test, AFP, EFE and Reuters reported this Saturday.
“At the end of today (Friday), after having a fever of 37.3 ° C and a slight headache, I did an antigen test, the result was positive,” Fernández said on his Twitter account in a post overnight Friday. to Saturday.
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, which was positive.
– Alberto Fernández (@alferdez) April 3, 2021
He added that he is awaiting the result of a PCR test that must confirm whether it is contaminated or not.
“I already isolated myself, following the current protocol and following the instructions of my personal physician,” said Fernández, who received the first dose of the Sputnik-V vaccine on January 21 and was inoculated with the second dose of Russian serum on January 11. February. .by the Moscow Gamaleia laboratory, according to presidential sources in Buenos Aires, cited by AFP and EFE.
“Although I wish I had finished my birthday without this news, I am in a good mood,” added Fernández, according to Agerpres.
Fernández, who had scheduled a meeting with the mayor of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, on Saturday morning to discuss the increase in infections in recent days, added on Twitter that he had contacted people with whom he had met in the last 48 hours “to assess whether they will.” be considered direct contacts to isolate themselves. “
In June 2019, when Alberto Fernández was running for president in the October elections of that year, the press reported that he suffered from inflammation in the membrane that lines the chest cavity and lungs. The politician had admitted that he had previously suffered from pulmonary embolism.
Argentina is currently facing a second wave of the coronavirus epidemic. According to official figures, the country, with a population of 44 million, has reported more than 2.3 million cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections and 56,023 deaths associated with COVID-19.
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