Leader back to routine after virus treatment
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador returned to his daily morning news conferences Monday following a two-week absence after catching coronavirus, but vowed not to wear a mask or require Mexicans to use them.
“There is no authoritarianism
in Mexico … everything is voluntary, liberty is the most important thing,” Lopez Obrador said. “It is each person’s own decision.”
Lopez Obrador revealed he received experimental treatments, which he described only as an “antiviral” medication and an antiinflammatory drug.
The president also revealed that he twice tested negative in late January in rapid tests that are widely used in Mexico, before a more thorough test — apparently PCR — came back positive the same day.
Lopez Obrador has held his daily news conferences almost every working day for more than two years, and this was the longest he has been absent from them.