Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, 55, tested positive this week for Covid-19, was hospitalized with double pneumonia, his wife said on Saturday.
Petro Poroshenko "
was hospitalized in a hospital in Kiev,
" Marina Poroshenko said in a video posted on Facebook.
"
Even though my husband has double pneumonia, he has a great will and he shows it in the fight against the disease
", she assured.
Currently a member of Parliament, Poroshenko announced on Tuesday that he had tested positive for Covid-19 and treated himself "
at home
", against the backdrop of a worsening epidemic situation in his country.
One of the richest men in Ukraine, who ruled this former Soviet republic from 2014 to 2019, he suffers from diabetes, which is a proven co-factor of morbidity linked to Covid-19.
In 2019, he lost the presidential election in Ukraine to Volodymyr Zelensky, actor and new to politics.
To date, more than 222,000 cases of coronavirus, including more than 4,300 deaths have been officially recorded in this country of approximately 40 million inhabitants located at the gates of the European Union.