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 yesterday, the executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, reported this Saturday, who clarified that a “false positive”, since today he has given 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.
Until now, no further details are known about the matter and about the state of health of the president, whose 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 president, after a couple of attendances in 2010 and 2011, when he attended as chancellor of then-president Hugo Chávez (1999-2013).
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