January 29 Mexican President López announced on his personal social account on the 24th that he had contracted the novel coronavirus. According to a report by Effie News Agency on the 29th, López Catal, deputy minister of health of Mexico, said at a press conference on the 28th that López is currently asymptomatic.
Gattel said that President López was in good health, calm and happy, hoping to return to his daily work as soon as possible, but he still needs to undergo a few days of isolation.
According to real-time statistics of worldometers, as of 9:31 Beijing time on the 29th, Mexico has more than 1.82 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 155,000 deaths, which has surpassed India and become the third highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the world.