Mexican president returns after COVID infection

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador returned to his morning press briefings Friday after recovering from COVID-19. In the middle of the week, Lopez Obrador admitted that after falling ill he suffered a "transitory fainting spell" as a result of a drop in blood pressure which prompted his being flown by an air ambulance to the Mexican capital.

During the last couple of days, government spokesmen provided contradictory information about the president's health, which fueled rumors about his condition.The Mexican president was infected with COVID-19 early in 2021 and a year later he contracted the virus for a second time.