Coronavirus: Carlos Slim, Latin America's richest man, tests positive
Coronavirus: Carlos Slim, Latin America's richest man, tests positive
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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".
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55805908
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Found a page of biographical information, and learned about his unusual last name.
He is Lebanese-Mexican. Very interesting.
https://www.puresoftwarecode.com/6enCarlosfamily.htm
The idea of "young Carlos Slim" seemed amusing to me, for some reason. I've been curious a long time about how anyone would have that name! Reminds a person of the gambler, "Amarillo Slim."
Young Amarillo Slim