{"id":117071,"date":"2021-04-03T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T06:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117071"},"modified":"2021-04-03T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T06:59:14","slug":"covid-19-argentine-president-tests-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117071","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Argentine president tests positive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s3media.freemalaysiatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Alberto-Fernandez-281019-AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1261240\"\/><figcaption>Alberto Fernandez is in isolation as a precaution but says he is \u2018physically well&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BUENOS AIRES, April 3 (AGENCIES) &#8212; Argentine President Alberto Fernandez announced on Twitter early Saturday that he has tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to tell you that (&#8230;) after presenting a fever record of 37.3 (degrees Celsius) and a slight headache, I performed a test whose result was positive,&#8221; said the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fernandez, who turned 62 on Friday, said that although he is awaiting confirmation through a polymerase chain reaction test, he is already isolated, complying with the current protocol and following the instructions of his personal doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Argentine president said that he is &#8220;physically well,&#8221; adding &#8220;although I would have liked to end my birthday without this news, I am also in good spirits.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We must be very vigilant. I ask everyone to take care of themselves by following the current recommendations. It is evident that the pandemic did not pass and we must continue to take care of ourselves,&#8221; added the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fernandez was inoculated with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine and had his second shot on Feb 11, sources in the presidency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Argentina registered 9,902 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, bringing the national tally to 2,373,153, the country&#8217;s health ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry also reported 82 more deaths from the disease, taking the nationwide death toll to 56,023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Argentina is facing a second wave of the coronavirus with a sustained rise in cases. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUENOS AIRES, April 3 (AGENCIES) &#8212; Argentine President Alberto Fernandez announced on Twitter early Saturday that he has tested positive for COVID-19. &#8220;I wanted to tell you that (&#8230;) after presenting a fever record of 37.3 (degrees Celsius) and a slight headache, I performed a test whose result was positive,&#8221; said the president. Fernandez, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}