Alberto Fernandez has caught the coronavirus. He confirmed it himself, in your personal account on Twitter, minutes past midnight on Friday at Argentina. On his 62nd birthday, the president said he spent a day “with a fever of 37.3 and a slight headache.” For this reason, he added, “an antigen test was carried out, the result of which was positive.” Fernández was the first president of Latin America to apply the vaccine against the coronavirus. Last january 21 received a dose of Sputnik V and on February 10 the second.
In January, the vaccines were arriving by dropper in Argentina and the Russian immunizer had barely obtained authorization to be inoculated in people over 60 years of age. The application to the president was part of an official strategy to promote the Russian vaccine among public opinion, at a time when the political opposition was promoting in the press the idea that it was dangerous because it had not yet been approved in the United States or Europe.
