President Luis Abinader Tests Positive for COVID-19: Updates and Symptoms

2023-07-05 22:04:44

Residence of President Luis Abinader, in the La Julia sector of this capital.

SANTO DOMINGO.- President Luis Abinader has presented a cough and fever, following having tested positive for coronavirus for the second time, reported the first lady, Raquel Arbaje.

However, he indicated that on this occasion the virus “is not as hard as 3 years ago” when the President tested positive for the first time.

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Abinader presented a feverish picture this Tuesday night that degenerated into a positive for covid-19, reported the spokesman for the Presidency, Homero Figueroa.

He explained that the President “is in a good state of mind resting in his residence” and that the presidential agenda should have been suspended until the required days of isolation were completed.

This is the second time that Abinader has been diagnosed with the virus. The first occurred in 2020 when he was still the presidential candidate of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM).

EXPLANATION MINISTER OF HEALTH

As a mild case, with symptoms similar to those of a flu process, these are the symptoms that the President presents, said the Minister of Public Health, Daniel Rivera, to the Listín Diario newspaper.

Who added that the President continues to work and that he is making more calls than ever from home.

“It is as if it were a flu process that gives a little discharge, general discomfort, but no significant symptoms,” he said.

He said that what has been established with the Covid is that following five days of rest or isolation, the person can return to their usual work and that even the President is convening a Government Council for this week.

INCREASE IN CONTAGES

The Dominican Republic has experienced an increase in weekly coronavirus infections in recent weeks, of which 777 cases were reported on June 28, which was 222 more cases than those reported on June 21, according to the latest data. offered by the Ministry of Health.

Since March 2020, when the first case of Covid was confirmed in the country, Public Health has confirmed 663,195 infections, while those who died from this cause total 4,384.EFE

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