President Of Honduras Tests Positive To COVID-19, Admitted To Hospital
Juan Orlando Hernandez,
President of Honduras, has been admitted to the hospital after testing positive
to COVID-19.
According to an official count, Honduras has recorded 9,178
reported cases and 322 deaths, for the 9.3 million inhabitants of Honduras.
Honduran President Juan
Orlando Hernandez was admitted to a military hospital in Tegucigalpa on
Wednesday after announcing that he and his wife had tested positive to COVID-19.
According to the doctors
who examined the head of state, Mr. Hernandez suffers from
pneumonia. He has some pulmonary infiltrations (but) his general
health is good the government spokesman Francis Contreras said.
Over the weekend I started
to feel pain and today I was diagnosed with Covid-19 disease. The 51-year-old
president told reporters on Tuesday that his wife had also been
infected, but she is currently "asymptomatic".
Mr. Hernandez has been at
the head of the country since 2013 and his re-election in November 2017 had
been contested by the opposition during harshly repressed
demonstrations.
In 2019, new demonstrations broke out to demand his
departure, after the promulgation of two decrees accused of privatizing health
and education.
Since the start of the
Covid-19 pandemic in March, Hernandez has led a prevention campaign, increasing
press conferences to promote physical distancing, the use of masks and hand
washing. But the number of patients is increasing despite the measures
taken and the continuation of the curfew in force since March 16.
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