The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, who turned 62 this Friday and had already been vaccinated against covid-19, confirmed that he tested positive in an antigen test, waiting to receive the result of the PCR test.
“I wanted to tell them that at the end of today, after presenting a record of 37.3 fever and a slight headache, I had an antigen test, the result was positive,” the president wrote. on his Twitter account this Saturday morning.
“While we are awaiting confirmation through the PCR test, I am already isolated, complying with the current protocol and following the instructions of my personal physician,” said Fernandez, who on January 21 received the first dose of the Sputnik-V vaccine and on February 11 was inoculated with the second, as reported by Efe from the Presidency.
The same sources have specified that the president tested positive in a “quick test” but is waiting for full confirmation with the PCR, the result will be known in “a few hours”.
Fernández, who planned to meet with the mayor of Buenos Aires on Saturday morning, the opposition Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, to analyze the increase in contagion that has been occurring in the country in recent days, added on Twitter that he has contacted the people he was meeting with in the last 48 hours “to assess whether they constitute close contact for them to do the isolation.”
“For everyone’s information I am physically well and, although I would have liked to end my birthday without this news, I am also in good spirits. I am grateful from the bottom of my heart for the many displays of affection that today they have given me remembrance of my birth, “he said in his message thread, which he concluded by asking citizens to continue to care for and preserve the recommendations because” it is clear that the pandemic did not happen. “
Fernández’s last publicly known health problem dates back to June 2019, when he was still a pre-candidate for the presidency for the October elections this year: at that time he was reported to be suffering from an inflammation in the membrane that it covers the thoracic cavity and the lungs.
The diagnosis was made after several studies after suffering a persistent cough.
Even then, the Peronist politician himself declared that “many years ago” he had a clot in his lung. EFE