Mexico's president admits he fainted due to COVID-19

Mexico’s president, López Obrador acknowledged Wednesday he did “briefly faint” over the weekend before he was diagnosed with COVID-19. President said his doctors had been concerned enough to administer a liter of rehydration fluids.

The president had been on a working tour of the Yucatan peninsula Sunday when he tested positive for the coronavirus, his third bout of COVID-19.Reports in the local press that day said López Obrador had felt faint Sunday morning and had to cancel his tour, something his presidential spokesman denied at the time.

López Obrador caught COVID-19 in early 2021 and was ill, but recovered after receiving what he described at the time as an experimental treatment.In January 2022, he announced he had come down with COVID-19 a second time, amid a spike in coronavirus infections in Mexico.