FILE - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a gathering with Vice President Kamala Harris successful her bureau astatine the Eisenhower Executive Office Building connected the White House complex, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, successful Washington. President Lopez Obrador announced connected Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, that helium has travel down with COVID-19 a 2nd time, arsenic coronavirus infections spike successful Mexico and microorganism tests go scarce. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (Alex Brandon, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

MEXICO CITY – Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador returned to his greeting quality league Monday pursuing a week of isolation for his 2nd coronavirus infection.

The president utilized his comparatively speedy betterment to remark connected the lighter symptoms of the omicron variant, which has rapidly go ascendant successful the region, though helium had not said explicitly that was the variant helium had.

“It is demonstrable that this variant does not person the aforesaid seriousness arsenic the earlier, the delta,” López Obrador said. “In symptoms and besides successful recuperation time.”

López Obrador was infected the archetypal clip successful January of past year. He does not deterioration a protective disguise during his regular quality conferences successful beforehand of unit and reporters. He had sounded hoarse astatine his quality league past Monday, dismissed it arsenic a cold, but said helium would beryllium tested. Later successful the time helium confirmed helium was infected.

The 68-year-old president had received 3 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

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He credited Mexico’s vaccination programme with keeping hospitalizations debased adjacent portion caller infections surged.

Mexico has recorded much than 300,000 test-confirmed COVID-19 deaths during the pandemic, but with an highly debased complaint of investigating the authorities estimates that the existent decease toll is adjacent 460,000.

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