The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, suspended its participation in the Ibero-American Summit that is being held in the Dominican Republic, after test positive for covid-19 Yesterday, the executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, reported this Saturday, who clarified that a “false positive” is suspected, since today 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.
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“This led to the suspension of his participation in the Ibero-American Summit,” added the official, who said that this Saturday two new tests were carried out “with negative results.”
“Everything indicates that it was a false positive,” he said.
Until now, more details on the matter and on the state of health of the president are unknown.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.
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The foreign minister of Venezuela, Yván Gilarrived in Santo Domingo on Friday for the Ibero-American event and, since then, has headed the Venezuelan delegation in the plenary session and in the discussion forums.
Maduro, with ten years in power, has not yet participated in a Iberoamerican Summit as president, after a couple of attendances in the years 2010 and 2011, when he attended as chancellor of the then president Hugo Chávez, who exercised power in Venezuela between 1999 and 2013.
