The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, suspended his participation in the Ibero-American Summit that is being held in the Dominican Republic, after testing positive for covid-19 this Fridaythe executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, reported this Saturday, who clarified that a “false positive” is suspected, since this Saturday she has tested negative in two more tests.
“Yesterday, the president was informed by his doctors of a positive PCR-Covid result. This led to the suspension of his participation in the Ibero-American Summit. Today 2 tests were performed with negative results. Everything indicates that it was a false positive,” the vice president said on Twitter.
So far I knowThey do not know more details about the matter and about the state of health of the presidentwhose last public appearance was last Thursday, when he received his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, in Caracas, with whom he held a working meeting that lasted for about two hours.
The Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Yván Gil, arrived in Santo Domingo on Friday for the Ibero-American meeting and, since then, has headed the Venezuelan delegation in plenary sessions and in discussion forums.
Maduro, with ten years in power, has never participated in an Ibero-American Summit as presidentafter a couple of assists in the years 2010 and 2011, when he attended as chancellor of the then president Hugo Chávez (1999-2013).