Interim Bolivian President Jeanine Añez, who announced Thursday that she has tested positive for coronavirus, is " asymptomatic, " her personal physician said on Friday.
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The 53-year-old right-wing leader, candidate for the September 6 presidential election, " is in a stable state ", confined to her residence, and is " completely asymptomatic, she has no symptoms linked to the coronavirus ", a indicated the pulmonologist Andrei Miranda on the Cadena A channel.
" After having been in contact with people who tested positive for Covid-19, (Ms. Añez) herself was tested to find out if she was carrying the virus or not, with a positive result ", he explained.
Three positive members of government
In Bolivia, three members of the Añez government, including Presidency ministers Yerko Nuñez and Health Eidy Roca, said in recent days that they had been infected. " Since last week many of them (among government members, editor's note) tested positive for coronavirus, I did the test and it was also positive, " said the president on Thursday.
He is the second South American head of state positive for coronavirus, after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who made the announcement on Tuesday. In Venezuela, the number two of the Diosdado Cabello regime was also infected. Jeanine Añez, senator on the right, became interim president of Bolivia after the resignation and departure in exile of the left president Evo Morales in November 2019.
According to the latest polls, it is the dolphin of Evo Morales, Luis Arce, who is leading the race for the presidential election with 33.3% of the voting intentions. He is followed by Carlos Mesa (18.3%), and Ms. Añez comes in third with 16.9%. Bolivia, which has a population of 11 million, has registered a total of 44,113 cases and 1,638 deaths.
