Mexico’s López Obrador tests positive for coronavirus for the third time
LA TimesMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has already suffered two bouts of COVID-19, has tested positive for the coronavirus again. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suspended a tour of the Yucatan peninsula Sunday after acknowledging that he tested positive for the coronavirus again, having previously suffered two bouts of COVID-19. López Obrador wrote on his social media accounts that “it isn’t serious.” The comment followed reports in the local press that López Obrador felt faint Sunday morning and had to cancel his tour, something his presidential spokesman denied. López Obrador, 69, who has acknowledged a history of heart problems, wrote that he would isolate for “a few days” in Mexico City: “My heart is 100 percent and as I have had to suspend the tour, I will be in Mexico City and celebrating, although from afar, the 16th birthday of Jesús Ernesto,” López Obrador’s son.