Coronavirus: Carlos Slim, Latin America's richest man, tests positive

[Judi Lynn]

Source: BBC News


Published 30 minutes ago

Latin America's richest man Carlos Slim has tested positive for Covid-19.

The 80-year-old Mexican telecommunications billionaire was only showing "light symptoms" and was doing "very well", his son wrote in a tweet.

It comes a day after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 67, also contracted the disease.

Mexico is among the world's worst hit nations, with more than 1.7 million confirmed cases since the pandemic began, and over 150,000 deaths.

In Monday's tweet, Mr Slim's son Carlos Slim Domit wrote that his father was "making very good progress with Covid-19 after more than a week of minor symptoms".


Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55805908

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