Mexico's triple-vaccinated President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that he has beaten COVID for a second time - and that the s...
Mexico's triple-vaccinated President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that he has beaten COVID for a second time - and that the symptoms of Omicron were mild.
Speaking at a news conference Monday morning - a week after he began experiencing symptoms and testing positive - the 68 year-old leader said his speedy recovery was testament to the dwindling strength of the virus - and the importance of vaccines.
'It is demonstrable that this variant does not have the same seriousness as the earlier, the Delta,' López Obrador said. 'In symptoms and also in recuperation time.'
López Obrador was infected the first time in January of last year. He tends to often not wear a protective mask during his daily news conferences in front of staff and reporters. But he is strongly pro-vaccine, and has shared snaps of himself receiving all three of his AstraZeneca COVID shots, including his booster just last month.
He had sounded hoarse at his news conference last Monday, dismissed it as a cold, but said he would be tested. Later in the day he confirmed he was infected.
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Monday, January 17, 2022, that he has recovered from COVID-19 a second time, as coronavirus infections spike in Mexico and virus tests become scarce
The 68-year-old president had received three doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, with his first jab taking place in April of last year before receiving his second shot in June.
He publicly received the booster shot during his daily press conference on December 7 of last year.
Last Thursday, the Mexican President also claimed in a video that he is living proof that the COVID-19 strain is not as lethal as the Delta variant, while isolating after testing positive earlier during the week.
'I am getting over COVID. And I also want to share this information with you because I consider that it is quite encouraging to be able to verify in my own flesh now that this variant of COVID does not have the lethality, the danger, of the previous variant, of the so-called Delta,' López Obrador said from his presidential office at the National Palace in Mexico City.
The president tested positive last Monday, hours after he appeared before the media at the National Palace and downplayed the severity of the Omicron variant he tested positive for, indicating it was only 'a little COVID.'
In Mexico, the AstraZeneca vaccine is being used for all boosters shots, regardless of which vaccine the person originally received.
Lopez Obrador gestures after receiving a third dose of the Astra Zeneca coronavirus disease vaccine as Mexico and other countries are stepping up their vaccination efforts as the Omicron coronavirus variant feeds concern about a new wave of infections, in Guadalajara, Mexico December 7
Even though he is triple-jabbed against COVID-19, Lopez Obrador says the omicron strain is not as lethal as the Delta variant after testing positive last week
A male teachers receives a booster shot of the against COVID-19 in Mexico City in January 2022
Residents in Mexico City wait on line at a COVID-19 testing center in the Mexico City neighborhood of Juárez
According to Johns Hopkins University data, Mexico placed fifth in the world with 300,912 confirmed deaths as of Friday.
The country is 15th in the globe with 4,257,776 cases.
Mexico has seen a rise in positive COVID-19 cases in the new year, registering 202,681 infections from January 7 to January 13
Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday that the government is expecting a delivery of nearly 27 million additional COVID-19 vaccine doses in the coming weeks.
At least 72.8 million people were fully vaccinated in Mexico as of January 1, according science publication Our World in Data. At least 81.1 million people have at least gotten one dose of the jab.
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