AMLO tests negative for Covid; may return Monday to morning press conference I m now in good health, president says in video message
Published on Friday, February 5, 2021
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President López Obrador said Thursday that he had tested negative for Covid-19 but would have to wait a few more days before making a full return to public life.
“I’m very pleased to tell you that I did an antigen test this morning and I was negative. Of course I still have to wait a few more days but I’m now in good health, I’m recovering from Covid,” López Obrador said in a video message.
By Lisa Zengarini
The Brazilian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (CNBB) has invited the faithful to join a National Day of Prayer on February 2, Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas Day), asking the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph to intercede in the ongoing fight against Covid-19.
“The aim is to ask God to nurture our hope and give us courage in facing the pandemic,” said the Secretary General of the CNBB, Bishop Portella Amado.
Light of hope Keep alight the light of hope” is the motto chosen for the Day of Prayer.
Catholics are invited to light a candle and to place it outside by a window when the night falls, as a symbolic gesture of hope and communion.
On January 17, weeks after other countries in Latin America and around the world began their mass inoculation campaigns, Brazil finally administered its first Covid-19 jab in the state of Sao Paulo.
I am leaving for Uruguay very satisfied, very happy, said Lacalle Pou, in a press conference, after a meeting with Bolsonaro in Brasilia.
The President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, traveled overseas for the first time to meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, in a meeting in which they discussed the idea of making Mercosur more flexible and the possibility of a face-to-face summit with the leaders of Argentina and Paraguay at the end of March.
Accompanied by the Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo, Lacalle Pou remarked the visit as successful. I am leaving for Uruguay very satisfied, very happy, said Lacalle Pou, in a press conference, after concluding a meeting in Brasilia with Bolsonaro at the Brazilian Government headquarters, where he was.