Mexico's president admits he briefly fainted due to COVID-19
Mexico’s president has acknowledged he did “briefly faint” over the weekend before he was diagnosed with COVID-19, something his spokesman had previously denied MEXICO CITY -- Mexico’s president acknowledged Wednesday he did “briefly faint” over the weekend before he was diagnosed with COVID-19, something his spokesman had previously denied. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said his doctors had been concerned enough to administer a liter of rehydration fluids. He said in a videotaped chat from the National Palace in Mexico City — where he lives and is isolating — that doctors wanted to fly him back to the capital in a stretcher. López Obrador had been on a working tour of the Yucatan peninsula Sunday when he tested positive for the coronavirus, his third bout of COVID-19. But he wrote in his social media accounts Sunday that “it isn’t serious.” Reports in the local press that day said López Obrador had felt faint Sunday morning and had to cancel his tour, something his presidentia...